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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-6183
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38757 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3407 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA28022 Secunia Advisory: SA28060 Secunia Advisory: SA27825 Secunia Advisory: SA27975 OSVDB 40774 MISC http://em386.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-favorite-better-than-c-scripting.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:033 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml FEDORA DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1431 CONFIRM http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200623 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453689 http://ruby-gnome2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ruby-gnome2/ruby-gnome2/trunk/gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c?view=log BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/484240/100/0/threaded BID 26616

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