[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: evolution-2.22.2-2.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4990
2008-06-06 04:05:24
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Name        : evolution
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.22.2
Release     : 2.fc9
URL         : http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/
Summary     : GNOME's next-generation groupware suite
Description :
Evolution is the GNOME mailer, calendar, contact manager and
communications tool.  The components which make up Evolution
are tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless
personal information-management tool.

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Update Information:

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/
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun  4 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes at redhat.com> - 2.22.2-2.fc9
- Add patches for RH bug #449924 (buffer overflow vulnerabilities).
* Mon May 26 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes at redhat.com> - 2.22.2-1.fc9
- Update to 2.22.2
* Fri May  2 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes at redhat.com> - 2.22.1.1-1.fc9
- Update to 2.22.1.1
- Remove patch for RH bug #437208 (fixed upstream).
- Remove patch for GNOME bug #524121 (fixed upstream).
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #448540 - CVE-2008-1108 evolution: iCalendar buffer overflow via large timezone specification
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448540
  [ 2 ] Bug #448541 - CVE-2008-1109 evolution: iCalendar buffer overflow via large description parameter
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448541
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update evolution' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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