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Evolution camel-lock-helper Integer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13830
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Release Date:
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2005-01-25
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Novell Evolution 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0102 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Max Vozeler has reported a vulnerability in Evolution, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system and by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in camel-lock-helper application. This can be exploited by a malicious, local user or POP3 server to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the camel-lock-helper application.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repository.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Max Vozeler
Original Advisory:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-69-1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-35.xml
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