CVE-2007-6183: Ruby GNOME2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Ruby GNOME2: version 0.16.0 only

Published 2007-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.