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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59510
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 5 FEDORA-2007-404 (evolution)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to evolution
announced via advisory FEDORA-2007-404.

Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and
communications tool. The tools which make up Evolution will
be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless
personal information-management tool.

Update Information:

This update fixes a security flaw that allowed a specially
crafted shared memo to execute arbitrary code.
* Mon Apr 2 2007 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-2.fc5
- CVE-2007-1002 (Shared memo categories format string vulnerability)
* Mon Aug 7 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-1.fc5.5
- Rebuild
* Fri Aug 4 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-1.fc5.4
- Require evolution-data-server 1.6.3.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-1.fc5.3
- Remove evo-calendar-print-with-pango-7.patch (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for RH bug #150458 (fixed upstream).
- Clean up spec file, renumber patches.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-1.fc5.2
- Remove patch for RH bug #167157, as it fixed it the wrong way.
* Wed Aug 2 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.3-1.fc5.1
- Update to 2.6.3
- No longer packaging unused patches.
* Sat Jul 29 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.2-1.fc5.7
- Add patch for RH bug #167157.
* Wed Jun 7 2006 Matthias Clasen - 2.6.2-1.fc5.6
- Rebuild
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Jesse Keating - 2.6.2-1.fc5.5
- Bump eds version requires
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Adam Jackson - 2.6.2-1.fc5.3
- ExcludeArch on s390{,x} because it's broken, and it's not shipped in FC5
on those arches anyway.
* Tue Jun 6 2006 Adam Jackson - 2.6.2-1.fc5.2
- Rebuild to hopefully fix build deps.
* Tue May 30 2006 Matthew Barnes - 2.6.2-1.fc5.1
- Update to 2.6.2
- Remove NSS/NSPR chunk from evolution-2.5.2-no-gnome-common.patch
(fixed upstream) and rename to version 2.6.2.

Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/


This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.


http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2007-404

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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