Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : evolution vulnerability (USN-583-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31405

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Ulf Harnhammar discovered that Evolution did not correctly handle format strings when processing encrypted emails. A remote attacker could exploit this by sending a specially crafted email, resulting in arbitrary code execution.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/583-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31405

File Name: ubuntu_USN-583-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2008

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-plugins, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:evolution-plugins-experimental, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0072

CWE: 134

USN: 583-1