Advisories (MDKSA-2006:094 ): evolution

[aru]

Mandriva Advisories MDKSA-2006:094 : evolution

 

Updated evolution packages fix DoS (crash) vulnerability on certain messages.

June 1st, 2006

 

Evolution, as shipped in Mandriva Linux 2006.0, can crash displaying certain

 

carefully crafted images, if the "Load images if sender is in address book"

 

option in enabled in Edit | Preferences | Mail Preferences | HTML.

 

 

 

Packages have been patched to correct this issue.

 

 

The released versions of Mandriva GNU/Linux affected are:

• 2006.0
  

Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at:

www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:094

 

Other references:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440

 

Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v: mdksec2mub,v 0.15 2006/05/25 20:55:43 aru Exp aru $)