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Red Hat: RHSA-2021:2567-01 Critical: Gnome Terminal Code Injection

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Calendar Grey June 4, 2008
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical update for Red Hat Evolution fixes a buffer overflow flaw impacting user security. Upgrade recommended.
Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as ...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment.
A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If mail which included a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment was opened, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108)
Red Hat would like to thank Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research for responsibly disclosing this issue.
All users of Evolution should upgrade to these updated packages, which contains a backported patch which resolves this issue.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow critical update software fix evolution security notice

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1108 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#critical

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4.5.z:
Source:
i386: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm
ia64: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm
ppc: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ppc.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ppc.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ppc.rpm
s390: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390.rpm
s390x: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390x.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390x.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4.5.z:
Source:
i386: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm
ia64: evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2008:0517-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0517.html
Issue date: 2008-06-04

Topic

Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 Extended Update Support.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow critical update software fix evolution security notice

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4.5.z - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4.5.z - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

448540 - CVE-2008-1108 evolution: iCalendar buffer overflow via large timezone specification

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