Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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.
Affected
evolution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1108 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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