Moderate: evolution security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-15587   CVE-2019-3890   CVE-2018-15587   CVE-2019-3890   CVE-2018-15587   CVE-2019-3890  

Synopsis

Moderate: evolution security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-ews, and atk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

The evolution-data-server packages provide a unified back end for applications which interact with contacts, tasks and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back end for the Evolution information management application, but is now used by various other applications.

Security Fix(es):

  • evolution: specially crafted email leading to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages (CVE-2018-15587)
  • evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if error is ignored during initial account setup in gnome-online-accounts (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 7.8 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 Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1392567 - Sync CategoryList with mail Labels
  • BZ - 1677650 - CVE-2018-15587 evolution: specially crafted email leading to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages
  • BZ - 1678313 - CVE-2019-3890 evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if error is ignored during initial account setup in gnome-online-accounts
  • BZ - 1753122 - GalA11yETableItem: Incorrect implementation of AtkObjectClass::ref_child()
  • BZ - 1753123 - Leaks AtkGObjectAccessible objects

CVEs

References