CVE-2005-2550

NameCVE-2005-2550
DescriptionFormat string vulnerability in Evolution 1.4 through 2.3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the calendar entries such as task lists, which are not properly handled when the user selects the Calendars tab.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1016-1, DTSA-13-1
Debian Bugs322535

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
evolution (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye3.38.3-1+deb11u2fixed
bookworm3.46.4-2fixed
sid, trixie3.54.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
evolutionsourcewoody1.0.5-1woody3DSA-1016-1
evolutionsourcesarge2.0.4-2sarge1DSA-1016-1
evolutionsourceetch2.2.3-2etch1highDTSA-13-1
evolutionsource(unstable)2.2.3-3high322535
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