CVE-2007-2027

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.

Link	Resource
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411	Exploit Vendor Advisory
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	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25198	Vendor Advisory
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255	Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/25550	Vendor Advisory
http://osvdb.org/35668
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686	Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:elinks:elinks:0.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Published : 2007-04-13 06:19

Updated : 2017-10-11 01:32

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NVD link : CVE-2007-2027

Mitre link : CVE-2007-2027

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Untrusted Search Path