RHEL 3 / 4 : evolution (RHSA-2007:0509)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25606

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated evolution packages that fix a security bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

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

Evolution is the GNOME collection of personal information management (PIM) tools.

A flaw was found in the way Evolution processes certain IMAP server messages. If a user can be tricked into connecting to a malicious IMAP server it may be possible to execute arbitrary code as the user running evolution. (CVE-2007-3257)

All users of Evolution should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch which resolves this issue.

Solution

Update the affected evolution and / or evolution-devel packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25606

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0509.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/19/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3257

BID: 24567

RHSA: 2007:0509

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