Evolution vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• evolution -

Details

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not
properly validate timezone data when processing iCalendar attachments.
If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted
iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service or
possibly execute code with user privileges. Note that the ITip
Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu. (CVE-2008-1108)

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not
properly validate the DESCRIPTION field when processing iCalendar
attachments. If a user were tricked into accepting a crafted
iCalendar attachment and replied to it from the calendar window, an
attacker code cause a denial of service or execute code with user
privileges. (CVE-2008-1109)

Matej Cepl discovered that Evolution did not properly validate date
fields when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user disabled the
ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an
attacker could cause a denial of service. Note that the ITip
Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu.