Ximian Evolution < 2.0.4 Content-Parsing DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2713

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running a version of the Ximian Evolution email client that does not properly validate malformed Unicode messages. By processing a malformed message, the client will crash.

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.0.4 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 2713

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 3/17/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Reference Information

BID: 12826

Detections

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