CVE-2007-2027 Information

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.

Reference

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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9741