Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Ruby-GNOME2: Format string error
Informations
Name GLSA-200712-09 First vendor Publication 2007-12-09
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-12-09
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A format string error has been discovered in Ruby-GNOME2, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of bindings for using GTK+ within the Ruby programming language.

Description

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.

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ruby-GNOME2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/ruby-gtk2-0.16.0-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-6183 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6183

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-09.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18425
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18425
Title: DSA-1431-1 ruby-gnome2 - format string
Description: It was discovered that ruby-gnome2, the GNOME-related bindings for the Ruby language, didn't properly sanitise input prior to constructing dialogs. This could allow the execution of arbitrary code if untrusted input is displayed within a dialog.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1431-1
CVE-2007-6183
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): ruby-gnome2
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for ruby-gnome2 MDVSA-2008:033 (ruby-gnome2)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_033.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2007-4216
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_4216_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2007-4229
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_4229_ruby-gnome2_fc7.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-3249
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3249_ruby-gnome2_fc7.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-3283
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3283_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-6127
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_6127_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-6491
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_6491_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-8399
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_8399_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-9667
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_9667_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-1435
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1435_ruby-gnome2_fc7.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-1535
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_1535_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-2662
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2662_ruby-gnome2_fc7.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-2682
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_2682_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2009-02-13 Name : Fedora Update for ruby-gnome2 FEDORA-2008-11551
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_11551_ruby-gnome2_fc8.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200712-09 (ruby-gtk2)
File : nvt/glsa_200712_09.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1431-1 (ruby-gnome2)
File : nvt/deb_1431_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40774 Ruby-GNOME2 gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c Gtk::MessageDialog.new() Function Fo...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-033.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-12 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1431.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-4216.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-4229.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-11 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200712-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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