Synopsis

Critical: evolution security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow vulnerability are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 Extended Update Support.

This update has been rated as having critical 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 mail which included a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment was
opened, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution.
(CVE-2008-1108)

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

All users of Evolution should upgrade to these updated packages, which
contains a backported patch which resolves this issue.

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 - Extended Update Support 4.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.5 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.5 ppc

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2008-1108

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support 4.5

SRPM
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 3c3ef5ed6a4b612a1f2992f10da958bcebe7fb6d01665d9085840130c0c0736a
x86_64
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: dc948f2b0bb2d994e1ec42efb447de07b3f90b8389b902bd752f513ae449f488
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: dc948f2b0bb2d994e1ec42efb447de07b3f90b8389b902bd752f513ae449f488
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 2146c3b278ff08449847ee5bbd5758e5c958a2cf5b8a13927e040bedf32bf2a4
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 2146c3b278ff08449847ee5bbd5758e5c958a2cf5b8a13927e040bedf32bf2a4
ia64
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 84d1e73a2ac395603d07452e2f292d899db90aabfcc701b422dd0d3add7c80ed
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 84d1e73a2ac395603d07452e2f292d899db90aabfcc701b422dd0d3add7c80ed
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 67ccf23b05ec4ef300928f5baf183dd9d1b11d773551437aa3918dc83a6a663e
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 67ccf23b05ec4ef300928f5baf183dd9d1b11d773551437aa3918dc83a6a663e
i386
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 95a629e746948a4324aff6b9ff60bc6844412b31c494a2cbb5907419297222d6
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 95a629e746948a4324aff6b9ff60bc6844412b31c494a2cbb5907419297222d6
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ed3e686e2edcdd74f560ed447663a56e8462ad65ff68b68ecdaa76765bff2632
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ed3e686e2edcdd74f560ed447663a56e8462ad65ff68b68ecdaa76765bff2632

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.5

SRPM
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 3c3ef5ed6a4b612a1f2992f10da958bcebe7fb6d01665d9085840130c0c0736a
s390x
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: bd14cf3fc3b98f15a3fd90d0864cba1e29259a0f917b55f872d21d0a62e7e95e
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 9fd378ac95f5113ce7df979d952c2e8a3890ea04a41e430ae2e73160342bf75d
s390
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 631dc2a3db7131231e7969864c37077bcc67371249e81a2560ce47bb654da186
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.s390.rpm	SHA-256: 2e04125a1cda8a8e2ccec7400dac3c44131023897ede5d4e7ba7fd1c21a7e42e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.5

SRPM
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.src.rpm	SHA-256: 3c3ef5ed6a4b612a1f2992f10da958bcebe7fb6d01665d9085840130c0c0736a
ppc
evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 77d5aa031133c62b4b3ec00b038c89d269261bb1c770c15753f310e0c32045bd
evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_5.2.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 7d773755f1c4d3fc055db144a6255f82b5fb23728559de0d4a199d7aa441b2df