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>> Evolution Encrypted Message Remote Format String Vulnerability
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Title : Evolution Encrypted Message Remote Format String Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0768
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0072
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-05
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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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