CVE-2007-2027

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 allows local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted gettext message catalog (.po file) in a "../po" directory, which can be leveraged to conduct format string attacks.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/25550

http://secunia.com/advisories/25255

http://secunia.com/advisories/25198

http://secunia.com/advisories/25169

http://osvdb.org/35668

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3