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CESA-2008:0178: RHSA-2008:0178

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CESA-2008:0178: RHSA-2008:0178

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/05/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/12/2010
Modified
08/29/2017

Description

Critical: evolution security updateEvolution is the GNOME collection of personal information management (PIM)tools.A format string flaw was found in the way Evolution displayed encryptedmail content. If a user opened a carefully crafted mail message, arbitrarycode could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-0072)All users of Evolution should upgrade to these updated packages, whichcontain a backported patch which resolves this issue.Red Hat would like to thank Ulf Härnhammar of Secunia Research for findingand reporting this issue.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-evolution
  • centos-upgrade-evolution-devel

References

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