Bug 177512 - www-client/elinks Untrusted search path (CVE-2007-2027)
Bug#: 177512 Product:  Gentoo Security Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: security@gentoo.org Reported By: jaervosz@gentoo.org
Component: Vulnerabilities
URL:  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2027
Summary: www-client/elinks Untrusted search path (CVE-2007-2027)
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: B2 [glsa] jaervosz
Opened: 2007-05-07 16:13 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-05-07 16:13 0000 
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the add_filename_to_string function in
intl/gettext/loadmsgcat.c for Elinks 0.11.1 adds "../po" to the search path for
.po files, which might allow local users to cause Elinks to use an untrusted
gettext message catalog, which can be leveraged to conduct format string
attacks.

------- Comment #1 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-09 11:48:02 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 177777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #2 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2007-05-19 22:41:17 0000 ------- 
spock please advise.

------- Comment #3 From Michal Januszewski 2007-05-21 17:24:02 0000 ------- 
This is now fixed in CVS thanks to a patch pulled from the elinks GIT tree.

------- Comment #4 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2007-05-21 18:30:57 0000 ------- 
Thx Micheal. 

Could you make a revbump of the latest stable so users can use glsa-check to
upgrade and arches have a chance to test?

------- Comment #5 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2007-05-21 18:46:15 0000 ------- 
Woops didn't mean to CC arches already. Sorry for the noise.

------- Comment #6 From Michal Januszewski 2007-05-21 21:00:09 0000 ------- 
Done, 0.11.2-r1 is in CVS now.

------- Comment #7 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-05-31 09:44:03 0000 ------- 
Jaervosz, seems it's ok for calling arches this time :)

------- Comment #8 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2007-06-01 05:54:27 0000 ------- 
Thx for the reminder:-)

Arches please test and mark stable. Target keywords are:

elinks-0.11.2-r1.ebuild:KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 hppa mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86
~x86-fbsd"

------- Comment #9 From Raúl Porcel 2007-06-01 12:36:08 0000 ------- 
alpha/x86 stable

------- Comment #10 From Peter Weller 2007-06-01 12:45:43 0000 ------- 
amd64 done

------- Comment #11 From Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2007-06-01 13:27:11 0000 ------- 
sparc stable.

------- Comment #12 From Brent Baude 2007-06-01 14:49:42 0000 ------- 
ppc64 stable

------- Comment #13 From Jeroen Roovers 2007-06-01 16:12:19 0000 ------- 
Stable for HPPA.

------- Comment #14 From René Nussbaumer 2007-06-02 20:09:19 0000 ------- 
stable on ppc

------- Comment #15 From Raphael Marichez 2007-06-07 21:30:56 0000 ------- 
GLS 200706-03, thanks everybody!

mips don't forget to mark stable to befenit from the glsa

------- Comment #16 From Joshua Kinard 2007-06-28 06:22:11 0000 ------- 
mips stable.