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Secunia Research reports a vulnerability in evolution (CVE-2008-{1108,1109}).
Preliminary disclosure date is 2008-06-04 10am CET.

The following is an excerpt from the vulnerability report, more details are
available:

Secunia Research has discovered two vulnerabilities in Evolution, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error exists when parsing timezone strings contained
within iCalendar attachments. This can be exploited to overflow a static
buffer via an overly long timezone string.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code, but requires
that the ITip Formatter plugin is disabled.

2) A boundary error exists when replying to an iCalendar request while
in calendar view. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer
overflow via an overly long "DESCRIPTION" property string included in an
iCalendar attachment.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code, but requires
that the user accepts the iCalendar request and replies to it from the
"Calendars" window.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.22.1. Other versions may
also be affected.
[...]
Credits should go to:
Alin Rad Pop, Secunia Research.

Created an attachment (id=154593) [details]
patch for CVE-2008-1108 (2.22.1)

Created an attachment (id=154595) [details]
patch for CVE-2008-1109 (2.22.1)

2.22.2 and 2.23.2 are vulnerable.

I could also reproduce the issue with our stable 2.12.3. I'll attach the
patches with clean whitespaces, as the ones above do not apply. If you can,
please prepare an ebuild for prestabling.

Created an attachment (id=154927) [details]
evolution-2.12.3-CVE-2008-1108.patch

Created an attachment (id=154929) [details]
evolution-2.12.3-CVE-2008-1109.patch

Created an attachment (id=154995) [details]
evolution-2.12.3.patch

patch for 2.12.3 ebuild

Created an attachment (id=154999) [details]
evolution-2.22.2.patch

patch to 2.22.2 ebuild. The first set of patch would need to match the scheme
of the second sed of patch to apply properly.

Arch Security Liaisons, please test the attached ebuild and report it stable on
this bug. Security only cared about the (to come)evolution-2.12.3-r2 ebuild.
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 release sparc x86"

CC'ing current Liaisons:
   alpha : yoswink
   amd64 : welp
    hppa : jer
     ppc : dertobi123
   ppc64 : corsair
 release : pva
   sparc : fmccor
     x86 : opfer

x86 good to go

looks good on ppc64

HPPA is OK.

Looks okay on alpha/ia64/sparc

also looks good on ppc

Looks good to go on amd64, too

Is this 10am CET or CEST? :)

public as per $URL. removing arch liaisons and moving to glsa part. please
commit the ebuild with stable keywords gathered.

evolution-2.22.2-r1 and evolution-2.12.3-r2 has been committed to portage tree,
with the gathered stable keywords for the latter, which just leaves release@.
CCing them

Fixed in release snapshot.

GLSA 200806-06

Is anybody coordinating with upstream?

(In reply to comment #21)
> Is anybody coordinating with upstream?

Can you elaborate?