RedHat: GtkHTML denial of service vulnerability RHSA-2003:126-01
Summary
Summary
GtkHTML is the HTML rendering widget used by the Evolution mail reader. GtkHTML supplied with versions of Evolution prior to 1.2.4 contain a bugwhen handling HTML messages. Alan Cox discovered that certain malformedmessages could cause the Evolution mail component to crash.Users of Evolution are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, whichcontain a backported fix correcting this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
5. RPMs required:
Red Hat Linux 9:
SRPMS:
i386:
6. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
56883b4836f636178988c6270fe994d4 9/en/os/SRPMS/gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.src.rpm
693c9ddf762fa181134e8c06ea778dfb 9/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.i386.rpm
d79bed2070be8815a8e094c1f9521f52 9/en/os/i386/gtkhtml-devel-1.1.9-0.9.i386.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is
available at All Red Hat products
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig -v
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
md5sum
References
Package List
Topic
Topic
Updated gtkhtml packages that fix a vulnerability are available.
Relevant Releases Architectures
Red Hat Linux 9 - i386
Bugs Fixed