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Status published
Medium
CVE-2007-2027
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c...
Vulnerability 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 Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
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
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Vulnerable Versions:
0.11.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
April 13th, 2007
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.