Moderate: evolution security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-15587   CVE-2018-15587   CVE-2018-15587  

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.

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)

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 8.2 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 Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1677650 - CVE-2018-15587 evolution: specially crafted email leading to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages
  • BZ - 1741091 - Birthday date of Contact depends on system timezone
  • BZ - 1753220 - GalA11yETableItem: Incorrect implementation of AtkObjectClass::ref_child()
  • BZ - 1764818 - Sync CategoryList with mail Labels
  • BZ - 1765005 - Reject creating meetings organized by other users
  • BZ - 1778799 - New Mail account wizard ignores email address change
  • BZ - 1788478 - EDBusServer: Delay new module load
  • BZ - 1791547 - [abrt] [faf] test-cal-meta-backend cannot run without installed Evolution

CVEs

References