Fedora 7 : evolution-2.10.3-10.fc7 (2008-5018)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33116

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix two buffer overflows in iCalendar .ics file fromat support discovered and reported by Alin Rad Pop of the Secunia Research:
CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109, SA30298 See referenced bugzilla bugs or Secunia advisories for further details:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30298 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-22/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected evolution package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33116

File Name: fedora_2008-5018.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 6/9/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:evolution, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2008

Reference Information

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

BID: 29527

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-5018

Secunia: 30298

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