CVE-2008-1109 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1109
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Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in Evolution 2.22.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long DESCRIPTION property in an iCalendar attachment, which is not properly handled during a reply in the calendar view (aka the Calendars window).

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42826 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-615-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00003.html ST 1020170 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30298 Secunia Advisory: SA30571 Secunia Advisory: SA30527 Secunia Advisory: SA30702 Secunia Advisory: SA30716 Secunia Advisory: SA30564 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0515.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0514.html MISC http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/ MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:111 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-06.xml FEDORA BID 29527

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