Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2007-2027 First vendor Publication 2007-04-13
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2027

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-38 Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths
CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9741
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9741
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-2027
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
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Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for elinks CESA-2009:1471 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1471_elinks_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for elinks CESA-2009:1471 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_1471_elinks_centos5_i386.nasl
2009-10-13 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:1471 (elinks)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_1471.nasl
2009-10-06 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1471
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_1471.nasl
2009-03-23 Name : Ubuntu Update for elinks vulnerability USN-457-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_457_1.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200706-03 (elinks)
File : nvt/glsa_200706_03.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
35668 ELinks add_filename_to_string() Path Subversion Format String Local Privilege...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-11-26 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2009-0030.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-1471.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20091001_elinks_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-01-06 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-1471.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-10-02 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-1471.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-457-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-06-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200706-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
http://osvdb.org/35668
http://secunia.com/advisories/25169
http://secunia.com/advisories/25198
http://secunia.com/advisories/25255
http://secunia.com/advisories/25550
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23844
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1686
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
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