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.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://secunia.com/advisories/27965 | third party advisory |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/607-1/ | vendor advisory |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/27984 | third party advisory |
| http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200297 | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references | vdb entry |
| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html | vendor advisory |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 | third party advisory |
| http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html | vendor advisory |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38904 | vdb entry |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:034 | vendor advisory |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30109 | third party advisory |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-03.xml | vendor advisory |
| http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/28838 | third party advisory |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00003.html | vendor advisory |