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CVE-2007-6109

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2007-12-07 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Emacs

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References