DSA 673-1: New evolution packages fix arbitrary code execution

New evolution packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 673-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 10th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : evolution
Vulnerability : integer overflow
Problem-Type : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0102
BugTraq ID : 12354

Max Vozeler discovered an integer overflow in a helper application inside of Evolution, a free grouware suite. A local attacker could cause the setuid root helper to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your evolution package.

Upgrade Instructions
----------------------

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 990 135eae823f6a0159a5f7ec6bc72c72b0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 16718 fdcc1244d1cfbe4c297cc49a577491b8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 15010672 d2ffe374b453d28f5456db5af0a7983c

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 10271422 207d01d4b051c5350a6c1952bc5221ee
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 947952 b74d9c65882ae4bafa47d6614a96596c
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 623002 5b864fe6659626050ac55ebf5e8572e0

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9282272 57853c1bd08388274b34399548bff183
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 663850 30e04aac4fbcda4e6b709aa1eb378f74
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 492650 96a58d81835fe40c118613994898a99f

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8905428 cc4885b6fff4f47cc3b729765454ea3d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 585986 53373ed37020c508d50c7f1c5006e6d3
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 470658 615259b21a7c889e8c7203b10e4e7b15

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 11454804 a4545f6efeb590b2602f8b8c44c9072d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 948252 f24c513391cdbd5cf51e0ec5a01def13
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 771184 2dbb984644f181bd46d996c6f06c2ac2

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 8876466 b47fd595352d5535199dc889d9aa653d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 578364 821686bde02e2ab5a86a3f07f272af26
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 483950 0927332469d079b3118ff012038b2865

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9339162 e0df2bad032a3a996981b3483223f0f0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 680544 be4b5ade6dcbe9264d30becd3f3789e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 511292 2bcda2165950f94d01630b13cb1264d1

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9219484 065504345356c2993a8ff479c7ac4653
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 640874 627f5efbeccefd384ae0335dd784c82b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 522850 d7055f0f6a273a52cd09fd783f88c525

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_1.0.5-1woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 9393318 4325f6d1bccd22cda371be7dd0a3add8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel-dev_1.0.5-1woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 670336 f58f241480dbdd3b6f673fb038e100d4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/libcamel0_1.0.5-1woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 510008 adc53f31cc22856e321f2e200a4f0d20


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.