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Gentoo: GLSA-200707-03 Normal: Evolution IMAP Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 2, 2007
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202203-15 discusses vulnerabilities in the Gnome Terminal permitting unauthorized access.
The IMAP client of Evolution contains a vulnerability potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Evolution: User-assisted remote execution of arbitrary code Date: July 02, 2007 Bugs: #182011 ID: 200707-03

Synopsis ======= The IMAP client of Evolution contains a vulnerability potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment. Camel is the Evolution Data Server module that handles mail functions.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 gnome-extra/evolution-data-server < 1.8.3-r5 >= 1.8.3-r5 *>= 1.6.2-r1
========== The imap...

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