4.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
25.7%
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.
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
osvdb.org/35668
secunia.com/advisories/25169
secunia.com/advisories/25198
secunia.com/advisories/25255
secunia.com/advisories/25550
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9741