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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-12 Moderate: Thunderbird Security Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several flaws in Evolution enable user-initiated execution of harmful code; update to protect your system immediately.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Evolution may allow for user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200806-06
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
      Date: June 16, 2008
      Bugs: #223963
        ID: 200806-06


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Evolution may allow for user-assisted
execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Evolution is the mail client of the GNOME desktop environment.

Affected packages
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  1  mail-client/evolution      < 2.12.3-r2               >= 2.12.3-r2

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Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported two vulnerabilities in
Evolution:

* A boundary error exists when parsing overly long ...
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