USN-733-1: evolution-data-server vulnerability
16 March 2009
evolution-data-server vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Software Description
- evolution-data-server
Details
It was discovered that the Base64 encoding functions in evolution-data-server did not properly handle large strings. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, or tricked into connecting to a malicious server, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 7.10
- libcamel1.2-10 - 1.12.1-0ubuntu2.1
- libebook1.2-9 - 1.12.1-0ubuntu2.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- libcamel1.2-8 - 1.6.1-0ubuntu7.2
- libebook1.2-5 - 1.6.1-0ubuntu7.2
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.