CVE-2007-2027

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-2027
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-04-13 18:19:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 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

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.4 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-134 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elinks Elinks 0.11.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ELinks Relative Path Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Ubuntu update for elinks - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
ELinks "add_filename_to_string()" Privilege Escalation - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for elinks - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.org
USN-457-1: elinks vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
235411 – (CVE-2007-2027) CVE-2007-2027 elinks tries to load .po files from a non-absolute path af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
ELinks: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
#417789 - elinks: elinks uses untrusted gettext catalog - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
osvdb.org/35668 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Trustix Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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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