Scientific Linux: 2008-06-04 Critical Advisory for evolution Code Execution

Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:18:21 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for evolution on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: evolution security update
Issue date:	2008-06-04
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1108

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)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
evolution-1.4.5-22.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
evolution-1.4.5-22.el3.i386.rpm
evolution-devel-1.4.5-22.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
evolution-1.4.5-22.el3.x86_64.rpm
evolution-devel-1.4.5-22.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2.src.rpm
 i386:
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2.i386.rpm
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2.x86_64.rpm
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson