Bugzilla Bug 182011

Original bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447414

Just copying description from the upstream bug report:

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The "SEQUENCE" value in the GData of the IMAP code (camel-imap-folder.c) is
converted from a string using strtol. This allows for negative values.

The imap_rescan uses this value as an int. It checks for !seq and
seq>summary.length. It doesn't check for seq < 0. Although seq is used as the
index of an array.

This means that a negative index number can be fed to the array lookup by
altering the output of an IMAP server.

I'm marking this as a blocker (very very serious) security bug as this is
remotely exploitable (I can put shell code in the UID field of the IMAP code,
and make it execute on the victim's computer, as at the seq'd field of the
index a g_strdup of the UID is written to memory. By carefully calculating the
negative value and overwriting the instruction pointer near the array's start,
I can let it point to that memory and get it to execute).

I first informed the Camel authors about this bug, but they didn't respond
quickly enough (it has been months now). I hereby stop caring about the secrecy
of security bug reports and I do report it now.

This bug affects nearly all versions of Evolutions. It can be fixed by either
checking for seq < 0 or by using strtoul in stead of strtol.
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Both evolution-data-server-1.8.3-r4 and evolution-data-server-1.10.1-r2 are
affected. 1.6.x affected but should be removed from the tree at some point...
As soon as patches will be applied upstream, I'll do the same in our ebuilds.

gnome please advise.

it has been commited to trunk and stable, I guess we need to patch all our
versions of eds and stabilize them asap

Okay, bumps for e-d-s are in the tree.

Target keywords for 1.6.2-r1: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86

target keywords for 1.8.3-r5: alpha amd64 ~arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86
~x86-fbsd

Thanks Daniel.

Arches please test and mark stable.

sparc stable.

ppc stable

amd64 done.  (yay for having tested during the bump)

ppc64 done

x86 stable

alpha/ia64 stable

Stable for HPPA.

GLSA 200707-03