Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : cairo (MDKSA-2006:057)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21115

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

GNOME Evolution allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent client crash) via an attached text file that contains 'Content-Disposition: inline' in the header, and a very long line in the body, which causes the client to repeatedly crash until the e-mail message is manually removed, possibly due to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using an XML attachment.

The underlying issue is in libcairo, which is used by recent versions of Evolution for message rendering.

The Corporate Desktop 3.0 version of Evolution does not use libcairo and is not vulnerable to this issue.

Updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21115

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2006-057.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 3/21/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64cairo2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64cairo2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64cairo2-static-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcairo2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcairo2-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libcairo2-static-devel, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2006

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0528

MDKSA: 2006:057

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