Synopsis

Important: evolution security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Updated evolution packages that fix two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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

Description

Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact
management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools
for the GNOME desktop environment.

A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment
data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail
with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be
executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108)

Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information
(attachments with a MIME type of "text/calendar") to be displayed as part
of the e-mail message, is enabled by default.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed
iCalendar attachments with an overly long "DESCRIPTION" property string. If
a user responded to a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment in a
particular way, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running
Evolution. (CVE-2008-1109).

The particular response required to trigger this vulnerability was as
follows:

1. Receive the carefully crafted iCalendar attachment.
2. Accept the associated meeting.
3. Open the calender the meeting was in.
4. Reply to the sender.

Red Hat would like to thank Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research for
responsibly disclosing these issues.

All Evolution users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches which resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 5.2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 448540 - CVE-2008-1108 evolution: iCalendar buffer overflow via large timezone specification
• BZ - 448541 - CVE-2008-1109 evolution: iCalendar buffer overflow via large description parameter

CVEs

• CVE-2008-1109
• CVE-2008-1108

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: d3b21d6f0564c7c3d4ccea55dab599b5d7887f831fe4807154f0906bdba70556
x86_64
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 48c0e4014635b44072778cbb278a819b3507d2e7ff07a551a81bacdaf215f6bf
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c44f452658902968858b34afc4c7b5260df85882a74a4b2c9d3f2e1b740dd625
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4005e01b61b59c5a12dff8b57526c201feec3a339ffc0edd4f1a1890692afa40
i386
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 16f56ddb4443de4e98bd280a34158903800b04da8101b2b24a6c0c0244d8d712

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: d3b21d6f0564c7c3d4ccea55dab599b5d7887f831fe4807154f0906bdba70556
x86_64
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 48c0e4014635b44072778cbb278a819b3507d2e7ff07a551a81bacdaf215f6bf
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c44f452658902968858b34afc4c7b5260df85882a74a4b2c9d3f2e1b740dd625
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4005e01b61b59c5a12dff8b57526c201feec3a339ffc0edd4f1a1890692afa40
i386
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 16f56ddb4443de4e98bd280a34158903800b04da8101b2b24a6c0c0244d8d712

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: d3b21d6f0564c7c3d4ccea55dab599b5d7887f831fe4807154f0906bdba70556
x86_64
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 48c0e4014635b44072778cbb278a819b3507d2e7ff07a551a81bacdaf215f6bf
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4005e01b61b59c5a12dff8b57526c201feec3a339ffc0edd4f1a1890692afa40
i386
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 16f56ddb4443de4e98bd280a34158903800b04da8101b2b24a6c0c0244d8d712

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: d3b21d6f0564c7c3d4ccea55dab599b5d7887f831fe4807154f0906bdba70556
x86_64
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 48c0e4014635b44072778cbb278a819b3507d2e7ff07a551a81bacdaf215f6bf
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c44f452658902968858b34afc4c7b5260df85882a74a4b2c9d3f2e1b740dd625
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4005e01b61b59c5a12dff8b57526c201feec3a339ffc0edd4f1a1890692afa40
i386
evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: aeccece471fc20a38fdbe0f1b9a43b48b023d47817972876a1c62eacf0197c2e
evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 6a248d2e81c420afbc86a1879f9c1a112369771b28ed533e8c439e1c231d364e
evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 16f56ddb4443de4e98bd280a34158903800b04da8101b2b24a6c0c0244d8d712