Title: GNOME Evolution Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Evolution is an email client for the GNOME desktop.
A remote denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in Evolution. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly handle incoming emails.
Although the exact nature of the vulnerability is unknown, presumably an email message consisting of a large number of URI and other formatting can trigger the application to consume excessive memory resources, possibly crashing the application. This issue is compounded when the application is restarted, because it will try to process the same malicious email.
A remote attacker may cause a denial-of-service condition in the application, effectively denying service to legitimate users.
Affected Products:
- GNOME Evolution 1.5.0
- GNOME Evolution 2.0.0
- GNOME Evolution 2.0.1
- GNOME Evolution 2.1.0
- GNOME Evolution 2.2.0
- GNOME Evolution 2.2.1
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.1
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.2
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.3
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.4
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.5
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.6
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.6 .1
- GNOME Evolution 2.3.7
References:
- GNOME: Evolution Product Page
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