CVE DATABASE / CVE-2007-2027
CVE-2007-2027
CVSS 4.4 · MEDIUM
Summary
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.
CVSS 2.0 breakdown
| Base score | 4.4 (MEDIUM) |
| Vector | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Attack vector | LOCAL |
| Attack complexity | MEDIUM |
| Confidentiality | PARTIAL |
| Integrity | PARTIAL |
| Availability | PARTIAL |
Weakness type (CWE)
Affected products
Elinks elinks
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References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
- http://osvdb.org/35668
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741
Data: NIST NVD. NVD last modified 2026-04-23. Always verify against the vendor advisory before acting.