Secunia advisory: Chris Rohlf has reported a vulnerability in Ruby-GNOME2, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the "Gtk::MessageDialog.new()" method in gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c and can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a specially crafted string is passed to the affected function. NOTE: Exploitation and impact of this vulnerability depend on how an application uses the affected function of the vulnerable library. The vulnerability is reported in version 0.16.0. Other versions may also be affected. References: http://em386.blogspot.com/2007/11/your-favorite-better-than-c-scripting.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27825/ Upstream SVN commit: http://ruby-gnome2.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ruby-gnome2?view=rev&revision=2720
Created attachment 271351 [details] Reproducer extracted from Chris Rohlf's blog
CVE id CVE-2007-6183 was assigned to this issue.
ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-18.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-18.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.