Synopsis

evolution security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

Updated evolution packages that fix various bugs are now available.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat
Security Response Team.

Description

Evolution is the GNOME collection of personal information management (PIM)
tools. Evolution includes a mailer, calendar, contact manager, and
communication facility. The tools which make up Evolution are tightly
integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information
management tool.

A bug was found in Evolution's helper program camel-lock-helper. This
bug could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges if
camel-lock-helper has been built to execute with elevated privileges. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned
the name CAN-2005-0102 to this issue. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
camel-lock-helper is not built to execute with elevated privileges by
default. Please note however that if users have rebuilt Evolution from the
source RPM, as the root user, camel-lock-helper may be given elevated
privileges.

Additionally, these updated packages address the following issues:

• - If evolution ran during a GNOME session, the evolution-wombat process
  did not exit when the user logged out of the desktop.
  
• - For folders marked for Offline Synchronization: if a user moved a
  message from a Local Folder to an IMAP folder while in
  Offline mode, the message was not present in either folder after
  returning to Online mode.
  

This update fixes this problem. Email messages that have been lost
this way may still be present in the following path:

~/evolution// \
/ \

If this bug has affected you it may be possible to recover data by
examining the contents of this directory.

All users of evolution should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat
Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat
Update Agent, use the following command:

up2date

For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the
following Web page for the System Administration or Customization
guide specific to your system:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 125528 - Moving to IMAP folder while offline eats mail
• BZ - 155376 - CAN-2005-0102 Integer overflow in camel-lock-helper
• BZ - 157352 - .ics import crashes Evolution
• BZ - 157354 - Creating a meeting crashes evolution
• BZ - 157355 - Cannot create all day event in calendar

CVEs

• CVE-2005-0102

References

(none)

This erratum does not contain any packages.