Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-1109 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Gnome Evolution 2.22.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE Integrity impact
COMPLETE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Evolution 2.22.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers 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).
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2008-111.NASL description Alan Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered the following two vulnerabilities in Evolution : 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 potentially execute arbitrary code with the user last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 37236 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/37236 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : evolution (MDVSA-2008:111) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0515.NASL description Updated evolution28 packages that address two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment. A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33110 published 2008-06-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33110 title CentOS 4 : evolution28 (CESA-2008:0515) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-5016.NASL description Fix two buffer overflows in iCalendar .ics file fromat support discovered and reported by Alin Rad Pop of the Secunia Research: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109, SA30298 See referenced bugzilla bugs or Secunia advisories for further details: http://secunia.com/advisories/30298 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-22/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33115 published 2008-06-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33115 title Fedora 8 : evolution-2.12.3-5.fc8 (2008-5016) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-4990.NASL description Fix two buffer overflows in iCalendar .ics file fromat support discovered and reported by Alin Rad Pop of the Secunia Research: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109, SA30298 See referenced bugzilla bugs or Secunia advisories for further details: http://secunia.com/advisories/30298 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-22/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33113 published 2008-06-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33113 title Fedora 9 : evolution-2.22.2-2.fc9 (2008-4990) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200806-06.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200806-06 (Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code) Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported two vulnerabilities in Evolution: A boundary error exists when parsing overly long timezone strings contained within iCalendar attachments and when the ITip formatter is disabled (CVE-2008-1108). A boundary error exists when replying to an iCalendar request with an overly long last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33203 published 2008-06-18 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33203 title GLSA-200806-06 : Evolution: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-615-1.NASL description 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 plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu. (CVE-2008-1108) Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Evolution did not properly validate the DESCRIPTION field when processing iCalendar attachments. If a user were tricked into accepting a crafted iCalendar attachment and replied to it from the calendar window, an attacker code cause a denial of service or execute code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-1109) Matej Cepl discovered that Evolution did not properly validate date fields 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. Note that the ITip Formatter plugin is enabled by default in Ubuntu. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33124 published 2008-06-09 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2008-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33124 title Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : evolution vulnerabilities (USN-615-1) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20080604_EVOLUTION28_ON_SL4_6.NASL description A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60416 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60416 title Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution28 on SL4.6 i386/x86_64 NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0515.NASL description Updated evolution28 packages that address two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment. A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33097 published 2008-06-05 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33097 title RHEL 4 : evolution28 (RHSA-2008:0515) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_EVOLUTION-5326.NASL description Multiple buffer overflows have been fixed in evolution. CVE-2008-1108 and CVE-2008-1109 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33193 published 2008-06-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33193 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : evolution (evolution-5326) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2008-5018.NASL description Fix two buffer overflows in iCalendar .ics file fromat support discovered and reported by Alin Rad Pop of the Secunia Research: CVE-2008-1108, CVE-2008-1109, SA30298 See referenced bugzilla bugs or Secunia advisories for further details: http://secunia.com/advisories/30298 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-22/advisory/ http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33116 published 2008-06-09 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33116 title Fedora 7 : evolution-2.10.3-10.fc7 (2008-5018) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2008-0514.NASL description Updated evolution packages that fix two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment. A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43691 published 2010-01-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43691 title CentOS 5 : evolution (CESA-2008:0514) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_EVOLUTION-5327.NASL description Multiple buffer overflows have been fixed in evolution. CVE-2008-1108 / CVE-2008-1109 have been assigned to this issue. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33194 published 2008-06-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33194 title SuSE 10 Security Update : evolution (ZYPP Patch Number 5327) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-0514.NASL description Updated evolution packages that fix two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment. A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 33086 published 2008-06-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/33086 title RHEL 5 : evolution (RHSA-2008:0514) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-0515.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:0515 : Updated evolution28 packages that address two buffer overflow vulnerabilities are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Evolution is the integrated collection of e-mail, calendaring, contact management, communications and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment. A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67704 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67704 title Oracle Linux 4 : evolution28 (ELSA-2008-0515) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20080604_EVOLUTION_ON_SL5_X.NASL description A flaw was found in the way Evolution parsed iCalendar timezone attachment data. If the Itip Formatter plug-in was disabled and a user opened a mail with a carefully crafted iCalendar attachment, arbitrary code could be executed as the user running Evolution. (CVE-2008-1108) Note: the Itip Formatter plug-in, which allows calendar information (attachments with a MIME type of last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60418 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60418 title Scientific Linux Security Update : evolution on SL5.x i386/x86_64
Oval
| accepted | 2013-04-29T04:04:47.414-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| description | Heap-based buffer overflow in Evolution 2.22.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers 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). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family | unix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10337 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| title | Heap-based buffer overflow in Evolution 2.22.1 allows user-assisted remote attackers 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). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| version | 28 |
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30298
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30527
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30564
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30571
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30702
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30716
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-23/advisory/
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-06.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:111
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0514.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0515.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29527
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020170
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-615-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1732/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42826
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10337
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00157.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00178.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00179.html