CVE-2008-3533

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-08-11
Bugzilla:
459487: CVE-2008-3533 yelp: Invalid URI format string vulnerability (remote arbitrary code execution)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Format string vulnerability in the window_error function in yelp-window.c in yelp in Gnome after 2.19.90 and before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid URI on the command line, as demonstrated by use of yelp within (1) man or (2) ghelp URI handlers in Firefox, Evolution, and unspecified other programs.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3533 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the versions of the yelp package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5.

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