CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
85.5%
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.
bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html
secunia.com/advisories/27965
secunia.com/advisories/27984
secunia.com/advisories/28838
secunia.com/advisories/29420
secunia.com/advisories/30109
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034
www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904
usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/