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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.4 Medium
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2007-04-13
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Affected products
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- http://osvdb.org/35668
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
