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Red Hat: RHSA-2009:0355-01 Moderate: Email Client Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Important revisions released for Red Hat's evolution and evolution-data-server, targeting moderate vulnerabilities.
Updated evolution and evolution-data-server packages that fixes multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having mo...

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.
Evolution Data Server provides a unified back-end for applications which interact with contacts, task and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back-end for Evolution, but is now used by multiple other applications.
Evolution did not properly check the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) signatures used for public key encryption and signing of e-mail messages. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof a signature by modifying the text of the e-mail message displayed to the user. (CVE-2009-0547)
It was discovered that evolution did not properly validate NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication challenge packets. A malicious server using NTLM authentication could cause evolution to disclose portions of its memory or crash during user authentication. (CVE-2009-0582)
Multiple integer overflow flaws which could cause heap-based buffer overflows were found in the Base64 encoding routines used by evolution and evolution-data-server. This could cause evolution, or an application using evolution-data-server, to crash, or, possibly, execute an arbitrary code when large untrusted data blocks were Base64-encoded. (CVE-2009-0587)
All users of evolution and evolution-data-server are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of evolution and evolution-data-server must be restarted for the update to take effect.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0547 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0582 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0587 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4:
Source:
i386: evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.i386.rpm evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.i386.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.i386.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.i386.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.i386.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
ia64: evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm
ppc: evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ppc.rpm evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ppc.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ppc.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ppc.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ppc.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ppc.rpm
s390: evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm
s390x: evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0355-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-03-16

Topic

Updated evolution and evolution-data-server packages that fixes multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 - i386, ia64, ppc, s390, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 - i386, ia64, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

484925 - CVE-2009-0547 evolution-data-server: S/MIME signatures are considered to be valid even for modified messages (MITM)

487685 - CVE-2009-0582 evolution-data-server: insufficient checking of NTLM authentication challenge packets

488226 - CVE-2009-0587 evolution-data-server: integer overflow in base64 encoding functions

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