Bug 113007 - CAN-2003-0988 kdepim VCF parsing vulnerability
Summary: CAN-2003-0988 kdepim VCF parsing vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kdepim
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-07 10:05 UTC by Mark J. Cox
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-14 14:46:39 UTC
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-01-07 10:05:24 UTC 
The KDE team found a buffer overflow in the file information reader of
VCF files. An attacker could construct a VCF file so that when it was
opened by a victim it would execute arbitrary commands. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the
name CAN-2003-0988 to this issue.

        CAN-2003-0988 Affects: 3AS 3ES 3WS 

Note the kdepim packages in RHEL 2.1 are not affected by this issue.

RHSA-2004:005 will provide updated packages with a backported security
patch.

This issue is under embargo and will be opened on January 14th 2004.
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-01-14 14:46:39 UTC 
Fixed, see http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-005.html
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