CVE-2007-2027

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

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.

Affected products

Elinks: 0.11.1

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

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