CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-2027

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2007-04-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2007-04-13
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-134

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.

Affected configurations

• elinks elinks 0.11.1

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789 bugs.debian.org
http://osvdb.org/35668 osvdb.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/25169 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25198 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25550 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml security.gentoo.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ www.trustix.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741 oval.cisecurity.org
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789 bugs.debian.org
http://osvdb.org/35668 osvdb.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/25169 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25198 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/25550 Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml security.gentoo.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ www.trustix.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741 oval.cisecurity.org