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                     Secunia Research 05/03/2008

    - Evolution Encrypted Message Format String Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10

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1) Affected Software

Evolution 2.12.3

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System compromise
Where:  Remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring
functionality to users of the GNOME desktop."

Product Link:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in Evolution, which 
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

A format string error in the "emf_multipart_encrypted()" function in
mail/em-format.c when displaying e.g. the "Version:" field from an
encrypted e-mail message can be exploited to execute arbitrary code 
via a specially crafted e-mail message.

Successful exploitation requires that the user selects a malicious 
e-mail message.

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5) Solution

Do not select untrusted e-mail messages.

Various Linux vendors will issue patched versions soon.

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6) Time Table

03/03/2008: Vulnerability reported to vendor-sec list.
03/03/2008: Vulnerability information leaked by Novell to the public.
05/03/2008: Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Ulf Harnhammar, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2008-0072 for the vulnerability.

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-8/

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