MSRC_CVE-2007-6109

Vulnerability from csaf_microsoft - Published: 2007-12-02 00:00 - Updated: 2022-06-17 00:00
Summary
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.

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