Low: evolution security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14928   CVE-2020-14928   CVE-2020-14928  

Synopsis

Low: evolution security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

OpenChange provides libraries to access Microsoft Exchange servers using native protocols.

Security Fix(es):

  • evolution-data-server: Response injection via STARTTLS in SMTP and POP3 (CVE-2020-14928)

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 8.3 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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • 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
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 1825447 - openchange: does not rebuild with samba-4.11.2-7.el8
  • BZ - 1836165 - Cannot type the date of a meeting
  • BZ - 1836279 - Please upgrade to bogofilter 1.2.5
  • BZ - 1857470 - CVE-2020-14928 evolution-data-server: Response injection via STARTTLS in SMTP and POP3

CVEs

References