CVE-2007-2027 | BDVDB-2026-23504 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
- http://osvdb.org/35668
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.