GNOME Evolution before 3.2.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the attachment parameter to a mailto: URL, which attaches the file to the email.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - evolution: incorrect selection of recipient gpg public key for encrypted mail (CVE-2013-4166)

  - GNOME Evolution before 3.2.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the     attachment parameter to a mailto: URL, which attaches the file to the email. (CVE-2011-3201)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - DoS from large email (CVE-2006-0040)

  - evolution: mailto URL scheme attachment header improper input validation (CVE-2011-3201)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0516 advisory.

    [2.28.3-30.el6]
    - Update patch for RH bug #707526 (Prints QP-encoded email encoded)

    [2.28.3-29.el6]
    - Add patch for RH bug #890642 (Crash due to implicit function declarations)

    [2.28.3-28.el6]
    - Add patch for RH bug #885558 (CVE 2011-3201).

    [2.28.3-27.el6]
    - Add patch for RH bug #805239 (calendar alarm notifications).

    [2.28.3-26.el6]
    - Add patch for RH bug #707526 (contact_list_editor_render_destination)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated evolution packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and communication tool. The components which make up Evolution are tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool.

The way Evolution handled mailto URLs allowed any file to be attached to the new message. This could lead to information disclosure if the user did not notice the attached file before sending the message. With this update, mailto URLs cannot be used to attach certain files, such as hidden files or files in hidden directories, files in the /etc/ directory, or files specified using a path containing '..'.
(CVE-2011-3201)

Red Hat would like to thank Matt McCutchen for reporting this issue.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

* Creating a contact list with contact names encoded in UTF-8 caused these names to be displayed in the contact list editor in the ASCII encoding instead of UTF-8. This bug has been fixed and the contact list editor now displays the names in the correct format. (BZ#707526)

* Due to a bug in the evolution-alarm-notify process, calendar appointment alarms did not appear in some types of calendars. The underlying source code has been modified and calendar notifications work as expected. (BZ#805239)

* An attempt to print a calendar month view as a PDF file caused Evolution to terminate unexpectedly. This update applies a patch to fix this bug and Evolution no longer crashes in this situation.
(BZ#890642)

All evolution users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

The way Evolution handled mailto URLs allowed any file to be attached to the new message. This could lead to information disclosure if the user did not notice the attached file before sending the message. With this update, mailto URLs cannot be used to attach certain files, such as hidden files or files in hidden directories, files in the /etc/ directory, or files specified using a path containing '..'.
(CVE-2011-3201)

This update also fixes the following bugs :

  - Creating a contact list with contact names encoded in     UTF-8 caused these names to be displayed in the contact     list editor in the ASCII encoding instead of UTF-8. This     bug has been fixed and the contact list editor now     displays the names in the correct format.

  - Due to a bug in the evolution-alarm-notify process,     calendar appointment alarms did not appear in some types     of calendars. The underlying source code has been     modified and calendar notifications work as expected.

  - An attempt to print a calendar month view as a PDF file     caused Evolution to terminate unexpectedly. This update     applies a patch to fix this bug and Evolution no longer     crashes in this situation.

All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198437	RHEL 5 : evolution (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
198354	RHEL 4 : evolution (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
68753	Oracle Linux 6 : evolution (ELSA-2013-0516)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
65148	CentOS 6 : evolution (CESA-2013:0516)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
65010	Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130221)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
64764	RHEL 6 : evolution (RHSA-2013:0516)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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