elinks format string vulnerability
Published:		16.04.2007
Source:		CVE
SecurityVulns ID:		7585
Type:		local
Level:		5/10
Description:		Relative path is used to search text strings (.po) file. It makes it possible to spoof the file and to conduct format string attack.

Affected:		ELINKS : elinks 0.11
CVE:		CVE-2007-2027 (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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