[Security Announce] [ MDKSA-2006:094 ] - Updated evolution packages fix DoS (crash) vulnerability on certain messages.

Posted by Bob on: 06/01/2006 06:32 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

The Mandriva Security Team published a new security update for Mandriva Linux. Here the announcement:

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2006:094
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : evolution
Date : June 1, 2006
Affected: 2006.0
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Problem Description:

Evolution, as shipped in Mandriva Linux 2006.0, can crash displaying certain
carefully crafted images, if the "Load images if sender is in address book"
option in enabled in Edit | Preferences | Mail Preferences | HTML.

Packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id11440
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2006.0:
75199e55e145d09497764b4143549ac4 2006.0/RPMS/evolution-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
46edcf05163d0ee772cfcc3c1577dbf8 2006.0/RPMS/evolution-devel-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
5aca2f9ce26cec6cd3a89f7aa599b904 2006.0/RPMS/evolution-pilot-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
d326ae2751e8a3ddbdf4419885c83f51 2006.0/SRPMS/evolution-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2006.0/X86_64:
323551a68ef4d398fb81b74b417b55c9 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/evolution-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
20367f9039030077603899382d5980fa x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/evolution-devel-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
e983bfa5ce3cde13610477fb8b377292 x86_64/2006.0/RPMS/evolution-pilot-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.x86_64.rpm
d326ae2751e8a3ddbdf4419885c83f51 x86_64/2006.0/SRPMS/evolution-2.2.3-10.1.20060mdk.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
lt;security*mandriva.comgt;
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