Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : evolution vulnerabilities (USN-615-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 33124

Synopsis

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

Description

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate timezone data when processing iCalendar attachments.
If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with user privileges. Note that the ITip Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu. (CVE-2008-1108)

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate the DESCRIPTION field when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user were tricked into accepting a crafted iCalendar attachment and replied to it from the calendar window, an attacker code cause a denial of service or execute code with user privileges.
(CVE-2008-1109)

Matej Cepl discovered that Evolution did not properly validate date fields when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service. Note that the ITip Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu.

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/615-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 33124

File Name: ubuntu_USN-615-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2008

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

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:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109

CWE: 119

USN: 615-1