CVE-2007-2027
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 0.8%
from disclosure to weapon24 days
Published on NVDApr 13
1st PoC+24d
exploitation probability
0.8%top 46% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/29954⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789http://osvdb.org/35668https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411http://secunia.com/advisories/25169http://secunia.com/advisories/25198http://secunia.com/advisories/25255http://secunia.com/advisories/25550http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xmlhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1