Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 13, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-2027
CVE-2007-2027
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.
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References
13- bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cginvdExploitVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25169nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25198nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25255nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/25550nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686nvdVendor Advisory
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvd
- osvdb.org/35668nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844nvd
- www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741nvd
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