| Name | CVE-2007-6109 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DTSA-98-1, DTSA-99-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 455432, 455433, 457764 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| xemacs21 (PTS) | buster | 21.4.24-8 | fixed |
| bullseye | 21.4.24-9 | fixed |
| bookworm | 21.4.24-11 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 21.4.24-12 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[etch] - emacs21 <no-dsa> (Minor issue, .el scripts opened need to be trusted)
[etch] - xemacs21 <no-dsa> (Minor issue, .el scripts opened need to be trusted)