Bug 238565

Summary:	CVE-2007-1558 Evolution APOP information disclosure
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	source=redhat,reported=20070401,public=20070401,impact=moderate
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2007-0353	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-05-17 14:46:21 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	235289
Bug Blocks:	241191

Description Matthew Barnes 2007-05-01 14:19:46 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #235289 +++

A flaw has been found in the way Evolution handles APOP authentication.  It is
possible for an attacker to discover authentication credentials by sending
certain responses to Evolution.

The upstream bug has more details:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424373

Comment 13 Josh Bressers 2007-05-14 19:24:25 UTC

I'm moving to version to RHEL4.  This flaw affects RHEL 3 and 4.

Comment 17 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-17 14:46:21 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0353.html