CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
95.0%
Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
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.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2008:0516. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(33098);
script_version("1.25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-1108");
script_bugtraq_id(29527);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2008:0516");
script_name(english:"RHEL 3 / 4 : evolution (RHSA-2008:0516)");
script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Updated evolution packages that address a buffer overflow
vulnerability are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the
Red Hat Security Response Team.
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."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1108"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0516"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected evolution and / or evolution-devel packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_cwe_id(119);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2008/06/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/06/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/06/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(3|4)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 3.x / 4.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2008:0516";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL3", reference:"evolution-1.4.5-22.el3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL3", reference:"evolution-devel-1.4.5-22.el3")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL4", reference:"evolution-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL4", reference:"evolution-devel-2.0.2-35.0.4.el4_6.2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "evolution / evolution-devel");
}
}