Original bug report: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447414 Just copying description from the upstream bug report: ================================================== 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. ================================================== 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
