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xemacs21 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- xemacs21
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 21.4.21-4
- CVEs
- CVE-2007-6109
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109
xemacs21
Fixed versions: 21.4.21-4
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109",
"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.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109",
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"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
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"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6109.json"
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"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
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"modified": "2026-10-21T17:47:34.454089583Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2007-6109"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-6109"
]
},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 398311,
"published_at": "2007-12-07T11:46:00+00:00"
}