RHEL 4 : evolution28 (RHSA-2008:0515)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 33097

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for evolution28.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2008:0515 advisory.

Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment.

A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108)

Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of text/calendar) to be displayed as part of the e-mail message, is enabled by default.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar attachments with an overly long DESCRIPTION property string. If a user responded to a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment in a particular way, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1109).

The particular response required to trigger this vulnerability was as follows:

1. Receive the carefully crafted iCalendar attachment.
2. Accept the associated meeting.
3. Open the calender the meeting was in.
4. Reply to the sender.

Red Hat would like to thank Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research for responsibly disclosing these issues.

All Evolution users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches which resolves these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL evolution28 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2008:0515.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 33097

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0515.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/5/2008

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-1109

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-1108

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution28-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution28, 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: 6/4/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109

BID: 29527

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0515

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