CVE-2007-6109

Publication date 7 December 2007

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
emacs21 8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 21.4a+1-5.2
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 21.4a+1-5ubuntu4.1
7.04 feisty
Fixed 21.4a+1-2ubuntu1.2
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 21.4a-3ubuntu2.2
emacs22 8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 22.1-0ubuntu5.2
7.04 feisty Not in release
6.10 edgy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release
xemacs21 8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

jdstrand

debian patch had regression. Also see http://bugs.debian.org/456235 per gentoo, xemacs21 21.4.x not affected, but 21.5 is. Verified all releases not affected

Patch details

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Package Patch details
emacs22

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