CVE-2007-6183

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: 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 products

Ruby Gnome2: 0.16.0

References

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

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