Vulnerability CVE-2007-2027
Published: 2007-04-13   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-134

 (Uncontrolled Format String)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Elinks -> Elinks 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9741
http://osvdb.org/35668
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
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