Moderate: evolution security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: evolution security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Evolution is a GNOME application that provides integrated email, calendar, contact management, and communications functionality.

Security Fix(es):

• evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified. (CVE-2019-3890)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1678313 - CVE-2019-3890 evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified.
• BZ - 1713619 - [abrt] test-cal-client-get-revision could fail due to delayed D-Bus property change notification
• BZ - 1724232 - Help Contents (F1) has a bad link to GNOME site
• BZ - 1724984 - [ECompEditor] Ensure attendee changes stored before save

CVEs

• CVE-2019-3890

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/