elinks vulnerability

2007-05-0700:00:00

ubuntu.com

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

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.7%

JSON

Releases

Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06

Details

Arnaud Giersch discovered that elinks incorrectly attempted to load
gettext catalogs from a relative path. If a user were tricked into
running elinks from a specific directory, a local attacker could execute
code with user privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu7.04noarchelinks< 0.11.1-1.2ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu6.10noarchelinks< 0.11.1-1ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu6.06noarchelinks< 0.10.6-1ubuntu3.1UNKNOWN