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Bug 231478

Summary: CVE-2007-1002 evolution format string flaw
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: evolutionAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.0CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=secunia,reported=20070301,embargo=20070328
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2007-0158 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-05-03 12:30:58 UTC Type: ---
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-03-08 16:48:45 UTC 
Ulf Harnhammar, Secunia Research, discovered a format string flaw in the way
evolution displays a memo's categories.  It is possible for an attacker to send
a specially crafted memo mail which could execute arbitrary code as the user
running evoluiton.  This memo must be accepted form the email, then later viewed
by the victim.  The attack requires a fair amount of user interaction to be
successful.
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-03-22 13:38:19 UTC 
This flaw is now public:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=117449439201881&w=2
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2007-03-29 19:05:41 UTC 
Created attachment 151221 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2007-03-29 20:12:26 UTC 
Thanks Josh.  Just committed this upstream.

Working my way backwards through our distros...
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2007-03-30 17:08:18 UTC 
Patch applied to evolution-2.8.0-33.0.1.el5.
Comment 15 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-05-03 12:30:59 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-2007-0158.html