CVE-2007-6109

Critical

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in emacs allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a large precision value in an integer format string specifier to the format function, as demonstrated via a certain "emacs -batch -eval" command line.

SeverityCritical
CVSS10.0
Exploit probability—
ProductGnu Emacs
PublishedDec 7, 2007
First seenDec 7, 2007

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