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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6109

Original release date:12/07/2007

Last revised:02/21/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:10.0 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/11/2007): 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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External Source: XF

Name: emacs-unspecified-bo(38904)

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

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-607-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-607-1

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:025

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200712-03

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