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    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.

    Published:Apr 4, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Apr 13, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.0024
    CVSS Score:4.4

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Elinks
    Product
    Elinks
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29954

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-135 Format String Injection
    CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2012-6709 (CVSS 5.9) — ELinks 0.12 and Twibright Links 2.3 have Missing SSL Certificate Validation.…
    CVE-2012-4545 (CVSS 5.1) — The http_negotiate_create_context function in protocol/http/http_negotiate.c in ELinks 0.12 before 0.12pre6, w…
    CVE-2007-5034 (CVSS 4.3) — ELinks before 0.11.3, when sending a POST request for an https URL, appends the body and content headers of th…
    CVE-2006-5925 (CVSS 7.5) — Links web browser 1.00pre12 and Elinks 0.9.2 with smbclient installed allows remote attackers to execute arbit…
    CVE-2008-7224 (CVSS 7.8) — Buffer overflow in entity_cache in ELinks before 0.11.4rc0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of servic…
    CVE-2002-1405 (CVSS 5) — CRLF injection vulnerability in Lynx 2.8.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject false HTTP headers in…

    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
    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

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High