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gtkHTML misshandling of malformed messages

16th Apr 2003 [SBWID-6152]

COMMAND

	gtkHTML misshandling of malformed messages

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

	gtkhtml-1.1.10

PROBLEM

	A  vulnerability  in  GtkHTML  was  discovered  by  Alan  Cox  with  the
	Evolution email client. GtkHTML is  used  to  handle  HTML  messages  in
	Evolution and certain malformed messages could cause Evolution to  crash
	due to this bug.

SOLUTION

	Upgrade