CVE-2007-6183 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453689 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200623 http://em386.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-favorite-better-than-c-scripting.html http://osvdb.org/40774 http://ruby-gnome2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/trunk/gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c?view=log http://secunia.com/advisories/27825 http://secunia.com/advisories/27975 http://secunia.com/advisories/28022 http://secunia.com/advisories/28060 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3407 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1431 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:033 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484240/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26616 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4022 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402871 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38757 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00214.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00251.html