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evolution eats more and more memory, then collapses
hello,
i have a problem with the email program evolution. i've tried googling for a cure, but i couldn't really find anything, and actually what i found just puzzles me.. anyway, this description would seem to match the symptoms:
"There is a vulnerability in Evolution's mime parsing code which could end up in an infinite loop if it is sent a mail with properly malformed headers. This causes evolution's memory usage to increase until it crashes."
(rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-080.html)
on another site it is said that the vulnerable versions are rather old ones. however, my version is 2.2.3, and yet it seems to have the same problem than the older versions, even though it is said that upgrading to a newer version will help:
"Evolution is a personal and workgroup email, calendar, and information management program, developed by Ximian. Evolution versions 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 are vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by improper parsing of MIME headers in email messages. A remote attacker could send an email with a malformed MIME header to cause the Evolution mailer to enter into an infinite loop and eventually crash. The program must be restarted to regain normal functionality.
"Remedy:
For Red Hat Linux 7.3:
Upgrade to the latest version of Evolution (1.0.3-6 or later), as listed in Red Hat Linux Bug Fix Advisory RHBA-2002:080-09. See References."
(xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/9059)
i tried checking the evolution project homepage, novell's evolution support etc, but i couldn't find anything (or maybe i didn't know where to look). what should i do?
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