CVE-2007-2027
First published: Fri Apr 13 2007(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Elinks Elinks | =0.11.1 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
- http://osvdb.org/35668
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/elinks
- canonical/elinks elinks
- version/elinks elinks/0.11.1