CVE-2007-2027

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    CVE-2007-2027

    Published: 13 Apr 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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.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://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789, http://osvdb.org/35668, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844, http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741

    Affected packages

    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