CentOS 3 / 4 : evolution (CESA-2008:0516)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33111

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

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

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 mail which included a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment was opened, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected evolution packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33111

File Name: centos_RHSA-2008-0516.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 6/9/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evolution, cpe:/o:centos:centos:3, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:evolution-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4

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

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

BID: 29527

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2008:0516

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