CVE-2007-2027

EPSS 0.24%

Published: 4/13/2007Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-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.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/elinksfrom 0, < 0.11.1-1.4

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2027