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Gentoo: GLSA-200706-02 Normal: Evolution Arbitrary Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey June 6, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo alert regarding vulnerability in Evolution enabling arbitrary code execution. Users advised to update.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Evolution allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200706-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: June 06, 2007 Bugs: #170879 ID: 200706-02

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in Evolution allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 mail-client/evolution < 2.8.3-r2 >= 2.8.3-r2
========== Ulf Härnhammar from Secunia Research has discovered a format string error in the write_html() function in the file calendar/gui/e-cal-component-memo-preview.c.
Impact ====...

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