CVE-2007-6109

Public Date:
2007-12-07
Bugzilla:
415751: CVE-2007-6109 Emacs buffer overflows

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6109 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this issue to be a security vulnerability since no trust boundary is crossed. The user must voluntarily interact with the attack mechanism to exploit this flaw, with the result being the ability to run code as themselves.

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