Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1325-1 evolution -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
29 Jun 2007
Affected Packages:
evolution
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-1002, CVE-2007-3257.
More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in Evolution, a groupware suite with mail client and organizer. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2007-1002

    Ulf Härnhammar discovered that a format string vulnerability in the handling of shared calendars may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

  • CVE-2007-3257

    It was discovered that the IMAP code in the Evolution Data Server performs insufficient sanitising of a value later used an array index, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.4-2sarge2. Packages for hppa, mips and powerpc are not yet available. They will be provided later.

For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.3-6etch1. Packages for mips are not yet available. They will be provided later.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your evolution packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-common_2.6.3-6etch1_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_ia64.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.6.3-6etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dbg_2.6.3-6etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.6.3-6etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins_2.6.3-6etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_2.6.3-6etch1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_m68k.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_mipsel.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution_2.0.4-2sarge2_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/evolution/evolution-dev_2.0.4-2sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.