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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200712-09">
<title>Ruby-GNOME2: Format string error</title>
<synopsis>
A format string error has been discovered in Ruby-GNOME2, possibly leading
to the execution of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ruby-gtk2</product>
<announced>December 09, 2007</announced>
<revised>December 09, 2007: 01</revised>
<bug>200623</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.16.0-r2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.16.0-r2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of bindings for using GTK+ within the Ruby
programming language.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Chris Rohlf discovered that the "Gtk::MessageDialog.new()" method in
the file gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c does not properly sanitize the
"message" parameter before passing it to the gtk_message_dialog_new()
function.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could send a specially crafted string to an
application using Ruby-GNOME2, possibly leading to the execution of
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Ruby-GNOME2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2-0.16.0-r2&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6183">CVE-2007-6183</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:00:54 +0000">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:24:59 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:25:12 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>