Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Evolution, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a format string error in the "emf_multipart_encrypted()" [mail/em-format.c] function when displaying data (i.e. the "Version:" field) read from an encrypted email message, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into selecting a malicious message.

Affected Products

GNOME Evolution version 2.12.3 and prior
Novell Evolution version 2.12.3 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0768
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-8/advisory

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Ulf Harnhammar (Secunia Research).

ChangeLog

2008-03-05 : Initial release

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