OSVDB ID: 35668

Title: ELinks add_filename_to_string() Path Subversion Format String Local Privilege Escalation

Info

Disclosure

Apr 05, 2007

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.11.4rc0 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2007-2027 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 23844
Secunia Advisory ID: 25169 25198 25255 25550 36910
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-1686
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380347
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417789
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235411
Other Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200706-03.xml
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-457-1
RedHat RHSA: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1471.html

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/36218