USN-583-1: Evolution vulnerability
5 March 2008
evolution vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software Description
- evolution
Details
Ulf Harnhammar discovered that Evolution did not correctly handle format strings when processing encrypted emails. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted email, resulting in arbitrary code execution.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- evolution - 2.12.1-0ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 7.04
- evolution - 2.10.1-0ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 6.10
- evolution - 2.8.1-0ubuntu4.2
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- evolution - 2.6.1-0ubuntu7.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Evolution to effect the necessary changes.