Scientific Linux SL3.x Advisory: Evolution Memory Issues

Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:07:24 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: evolution on SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: evolution security update
Issue date:	2009-03-16
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-0582 CVE-2009-0587

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)

An integer overflow flaw which could cause heap-based buffer overflow
was found in the Base64 encoding routine used by evolution. This could
cause evolution to crash, or, possibly, execute an arbitrary code when
large untrusted data blocks were Base64-encoded. (CVE-2009-0587)

All running instances of evolution must be restarted for the update to
take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm
evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.x86_64.rpm
evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson