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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6109

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38904

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27984
  Secunia Advisory: SA27965
  Secunia Advisory: SA28838
  Secunia Advisory: SA29420

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml

CONFIRM
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html


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