9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-1109

Published: 04/06/2008 Updated: 29/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Evolution 2.22.1 allows user-assisted remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a long DESCRIPTION property in an iCalendar attachment, which is not properly handled during a reply in the calendar view (aka the Calendars window).

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gnome evolution 2.22.1

Vendor Advisories

Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate timezone data when processing iCalendar attachments If a user disabled the ITip Formatter plugin and viewed a crafted iCalendar attachment, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute code with user privileges Note that the ITip Formatter plug ...
Debian Bug report logs - #484639 Two buffer overflows in evolution Package: evolution; Maintainer for evolution is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for evolution is src:evolution (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Steffen Joeris <steffenjoeris@skolelinuxde> Date: Thu, ...