CVE-2007-2027

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-2027
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-13 18:19:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-11 01:32:00 UTC
DescriptionUntrusted 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-134

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elinks Elinks 0.11.1 All All All
Application Elinks Elinks 0.11.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Ubuntu update for elinks - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ELinks Relative Path Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
235411 – (CVE-2007-2027) CVE-2007-2027 elinks tries to load .po files from a non-absolute path CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
ELinks "add_filename_to_string()" Privilege Escalation - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
2007-0017 TRUSTIX www.trustix.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
USN-457-1: elinks vulnerability | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
#417789 - elinks: elinks uses untrusted gettext catalog - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org
Trustix Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ELinks: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for elinks - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
35668 OSVDB osvdb.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-10-02Mark J CoxThis issue affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. Update packages were released to correct it via: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1471.html
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