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Bug 177512 - www-client/elinks Untrusted search path (CVE-2007-2027)
Summary: www-client/elinks Untrusted search path (CVE-2007-2027)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
Whiteboard: B2 [glsa] jaervosz
Keywords:
: 177777 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-05-07 16:13 UTC by Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-06-28 06:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-07 16:13:22 UTC 
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 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-09 11:48:02 UTC 
*** Bug 177777 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-19 22:41:17 UTC 
spock please advise.
Comment 3 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-21 17:24:02 UTC 
This is now fixed in CVS thanks to a patch pulled from the elinks GIT tree.
Comment 4 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-21 18:30:57 UTC 
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 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-21 18:46:15 UTC 
Woops didn't mean to CC arches already. Sorry for the noise.
Comment 6 Michal Januszewski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-21 21:00:09 UTC 
Done, 0.11.2-r1 is in CVS now.
Comment 7 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-05-31 09:44:03 UTC 
Jaervosz, seems it's ok for calling arches this time :)
Comment 8 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 05:54:27 UTC 
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 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 12:36:08 UTC 
alpha/x86 stable
Comment 10 Peter Weller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 12:45:43 UTC 
amd64 done
Comment 11 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 13:27:11 UTC 
sparc stable.
Comment 12 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 14:49:42 UTC 
ppc64 stable
Comment 13 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-01 16:12:19 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 14 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-02 20:09:19 UTC 
stable on ppc
Comment 15 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-07 21:30:56 UTC 
GLS 200706-03, thanks everybody!

mips don't forget to mark stable to befenit from the glsa
Comment 16 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2007-06-28 06:22:11 UTC 
mips stable.