CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6183
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-134
Description
Format string vulnerability in the mdiag_initialize function in gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c in Ruby-GNOME 2 (aka Ruby/Gnome2) 0.16.0, and SVN versions before 20071127, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the message parameter.
Affected configurations
• ruby gnome2 ruby gnome2 0.16.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453689 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200623 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://em386.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-favorite-better-than-c-scripting.html em386.blogspot.com
- http://osvdb.org/40774 osvdb.org
- http://ruby-gnome2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/trunk/gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c?view=log Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27825 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27975 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28022 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28060 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3407 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1431 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:033 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484240/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26616 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4022 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402871 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38757 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00214.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00251.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453689 bugs.debian.org
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200623 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://em386.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-favorite-better-than-c-scripting.html em386.blogspot.com
- http://osvdb.org/40774 osvdb.org
- http://ruby-gnome2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/trunk/gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c?view=log Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27825 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27975 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28022 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28060 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3407 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1431 www.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:033 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484240/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26616 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4022 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402871 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38757 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00214.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00251.html www.redhat.com