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Gentoo: evolution multiple vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Gentoo Three vulnerabilities were found that could lead to various forms of exploitation ranging from denying to users the ability to read email, provoke system unstability, bypassing security context checks for email content and possibly execution of arbitrary commands on vulnerable systems.

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-18
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          PACKAGE : evolution
          SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilities
             DATE : 2003-03-21 16:02 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.2.3
    FIXED VERSION : >=1.2.3
              CVE : CAN-2003-0128 CAN-2003-0129 CAN-2003-0130

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- From advisory:

"Three vulnerabilities were found that could lead to various forms of 
exploitation ranging from denying to users the ability to read email, 
provoke system unstability, bypassing security context checks for 
email content and possibly execution of arbitrary commands on 
vulnerable systems."

Read the full advisory at: 
http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=309&idxseccion=10 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-mail/evolution upgrade to evolution-1.2.3 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge evolution
emerge clean

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aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at  http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz
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