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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58170
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:070 (evolution)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to evolution
announced via advisory MDKSA-2007:070.

A format string error in the write_html() function in calendar/gui/
e-cal-component-memo-preview.c when displaying a memo's categories can
potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially
crafted shared memo containing format specifiers.

Updated packages have been patched to address this issue.

Affected: 2007.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2007:070

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1002
BugTraq ID: 23073
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23073
Bugtraq: 20070321 Secunia Research: Evolution Shared Memo Categories Format StringVulnerability (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/463406/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20070405 FLEA-2007-0010-1: evolution (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464820/30/7170/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1325 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1325
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-02.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:070
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-44/advisory/
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10100
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2007:0158
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0158.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017808
http://secunia.com/advisories/24234
http://secunia.com/advisories/24651
http://secunia.com/advisories/24668
http://secunia.com/advisories/25102
http://secunia.com/advisories/25551
http://secunia.com/advisories/25880
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:015 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-442-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1058
XForce ISS Database: evolution-writehtml-format-string(33106)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33106
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