Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-0128 - Unspecified vulnerability in Ximian Evolution

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
ximian
nessus
exploit available

Summary

The try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious uuencoded (UUE) header, possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Exploit-Db

descriptionXimian Evolution 1.x UUEncoding Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2003-0128. Dos exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:22370
last seen2016-02-02
modified2003-03-17
published2003-03-17
reporterCore Security
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/22370/
titleXimian Evolution 1.x UUEncoding Denial of Service Vulnerability

Nessus

NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
NASL idMANDRAKE_MDKSA-2003-045.NASL
descriptionSeveral vulnerabilities were discovered in the Evolution email client. These problems make it possible for a carefully constructed email message to crash the program, causing general system instability by starving resources.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id14029
published2004-07-31
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14029
titleMandrake Linux Security Advisory : evolution (MDKSA-2003:045)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:045. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(14029);
  script_version ("1.17");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:46");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2003-0128", "CVE-2003-0129", "CVE-2003-0130");
  script_xref(name:"MDKSA", value:"2003:045");

  script_name(english:"Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : evolution (MDKSA-2003:045)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Evolution email client.
These problems make it possible for a carefully constructed email
message to crash the program, causing general system instability by
starving resources."
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:evolution");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:evolution-pilot");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libevolution0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libevolution0-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.1");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2003/04/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/07/31");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"evolution-1.0.8-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"evolution-pilot-1.0.8-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libevolution0-1.0.8-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libevolution0-devel-1.0.8-3.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;

if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"evolution-1.2.4-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"evolution-pilot-1.2.4-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libevolution0-1.2.4-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK9.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libevolution0-devel-1.2.4-1.1mdk", yank:"mdk")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

Oval

accepted2007-04-25T19:52:13.800-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
  • nameJay Beale
    organizationBastille Linux
  • nameJay Beale
    organizationBastille Linux
  • nameThomas R. Jones
    organizationMaitreya Security
descriptionThe try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious uuencoded (UUE) header, possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:107
statusaccepted
submitted2003-08-11T12:00:00.000-04:00
titleXimian Evolution Mail User Agent uuencoded header Denial of Service
version38

Redhat

advisories
rhsa
idRHSA-2003:108