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Red Hat GtkHTML HTML Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9699
Release Date: 2003-09-09
Popularity: 8,441 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:RedHat Linux 7.3
RedHat Linux 8.0
RedHat Linux 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0541


Description:
Red Hat has reported a vulnerability in GtkHTML, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on Evolution.

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference bug when handling certain HTML documents. This can be exploited by sending a specially crafted HTML document to a user, which causes the Evolution mail component to crash.

Solution:
Updated packages:

-- Red Hat Linux 7.3 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS/gtkhtml-1.0.2-1.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-1.0.2-1.1.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-devel-1.0.2-1.1.i386.rpm


-- Red Hat Linux 8.0 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/gtkhtml-1.0.4-3.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-1.0.4-3.1.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-devel-1.0.4-3.1.i386.rpm


-- Red Hat Linux 9 --

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.1.src.rpm

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.1.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-devel-1.1.9-0.9.1.i386.rpm

Provided and/or discovered by:
Alan Cox

Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-264.html


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