Issued:

2009-03-16

Updated:

2009-03-16

RHSA-2009:0355 - Moderate: evolution and evolution-data-server security update

Synopsis

Moderate: evolution and evolution-data-server security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated evolution and evolution-data-server packages that fixes multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

Description

Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications, and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment.

Evolution Data Server provides a unified back-end for applications which interact with contacts, task and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back-end for Evolution, but is now used by multiple other applications.

Evolution did not properly check the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) signatures used for public key encryption and signing of e-mail messages. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof a signature by modifying the text of the e-mail message displayed to the user. (CVE-2009-0547)

It was discovered that evolution did not properly validate NTLM (NT LAN Manager) authentication challenge packets. A malicious server using NTLM authentication could cause evolution to disclose portions of its memory or crash during user authentication. (CVE-2009-0582)

Multiple integer overflow flaws which could cause heap-based buffer overflows were found in the Base64 encoding routines used by evolution and evolution-data-server. This could cause evolution, or an application using evolution-data-server, to crash, or, possibly, execute an arbitrary code when large untrusted data blocks were Base64-encoded. (CVE-2009-0587)

All users of evolution and evolution-data-server are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances of evolution and evolution-data-server must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.x86_64.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.src.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.src.rpm
• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ppc.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ppc.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ppc.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm
• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.i386.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.i386.rpm
• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.ia64.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390x.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.s390x.rpm
• evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm
• evolution-devel-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.s390x.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ia64.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.x86_64.rpm
• evolution-2.0.2-41.el4_7.2.x86_64.rpm
• evolution-data-server-1.0.2-14.el4_7.1.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 484925
• This content is not included.BZ - 487685
• This content is not included.BZ - 488226

CVEs

• CVE-2009-0587
• CVE-2009-0547
• CVE-2009-0582

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.