Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-457-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Arnaud Giersch discovered that elinks incorrectly attempted to load gettext catalogs from a relative path. If a user were tricked into running elinks from a specific directory, a local attacker could execute code with user privileges.
Affected
elinks vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2027 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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