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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : evolution vulnerabilities (USN-615-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 33124
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate timezone data when processing iCalendar attachments.If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with user privileges. Note that the ITip Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu. (CVE-2008-1108)
Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate the DESCRIPTION field when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user were tricked into accepting a crafted iCalendar attachment and replied to it from the calendar window, an attacker code cause a denial of service or execute code with user privileges.
(CVE-2008-1109)
Matej Cepl discovered that Evolution did not properly validate date fields when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service. Note that the ITip Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 33124
File Name: ubuntu_USN-615-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 6/9/2008
Updated: 1/19/2021
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
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-plugins-experimental, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109