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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RHSA-2013:1540-02 Low: Evolution Email Flaw

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Enhanced Evolution packages released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, rectifying a critical security vulnerability along with multiple improvements.
Updated evolution packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Summary

Evolution is the integrated collection of email, calendaring, contact management, communications, and personal information management (PIM) tools for the GNOME desktop environment.
A flaw was found in the way Evolution selected GnuPG public keys when encrypting emails. This could result in emails being encrypted with public keys other than the one belonging to the intended recipient. (CVE-2013-4166)
The Evolution packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.32.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. These changes include implementation of Gnome XDG Config Folders, and support for Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol to connect to Microsoft Exchange servers. EWS support has been added as a part of the evolution-exchange packages. (BZ#883010, BZ#883014, BZ#883015, BZ#883017, BZ#524917, BZ#524921, BZ#883044)
The gtkhtml3 packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.32.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#883019)
The libgdata packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.6.4, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#883032)
This update also fixes the following bug:
* The Exchange Calendar could not fetch the "Free" and "Busy" information for meeting attendees when using Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers, and this information thus could not be displayed. This happened because Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers use more strict rules for "Free" and "Busy" information fetching. With this update, the respective code in the openchange packages has been modified so the "Free" and "Busy" information fetching now complies with the fetching rules on Microsoft Exchange 2010 servers. The "Free" and "Busy" information can now be displayed as expected in the Exchange Calendar. (BZ#665967)
All Evolution users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity email client encryption flaw enhancement update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4166 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: cheese-2.28.1-8.el6.i686.rpm cheese-debuginfo-2.28.1-8.el6.i686.rpm control-center-2.28.1-39.el6.i686.rpm control-center-debuginfo-2.28.1-39.el6.i686.rpm control-center-extra-2.28.1-39.el6.i686.rpm control-center-filesystem-2.28.1-39.el6.i686.rpm ekiga-3.2.6-4.el6.i686.rpm ekiga-debuginfo-3.2.6-4.el6.i686.rpm evolution-2.32.3-30.el6.i686.rpm evolution-data-server-2.32.3-18.el6.i686.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-2.32.3-18.el6.i686.rpm evolution-debuginfo-2.32.3-30.el6.i686.rpm evolution-exchange-2.32.3-16.el6.i686.rpm evolution-exchange-debuginfo-2.32.3-16.el6.i686.rpm evolution-mapi-0.32.2-12.el6.i686.rpm evolution-mapi-debuginfo-0.32.2-12.el6.i686.rpm gnome-panel-2.30.2-15.el6.i686.rpm gnome-panel-debuginfo-2.30.2-15.el6.i686.rpm gnome-panel-libs-2.30.2-15.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-applet-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-bugbuddy-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-desktop-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-desktop-debuginfo-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-gnomekeyring-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-libwnck-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gnome-python2-rsvg-2.28.0-5.el6.i686.rpm gtkhtml3-3.32.2-2.el6.i686.rpm gtkhtml3-debuginfo-3.32.2-2.el6.i686.rpm libgdata-0.6.4-2.el6.i686.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:1540-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1540.html
Issue date: 2013-11-21

Topic

Updated evolution packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, andadd various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link inthe References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity email client encryption flaw enhancement update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

589263 - [PATCH] Google contacts can unlock its cache causing slow updating

602667 - [PATCH] [abrt] evolution-2.28.3-3.el6: camel_msgport_try_pop, camel_operation_cancel_check, regen_list_done

615969 - Whitespaces drop on paste

619842 - Attached email message is empty in forwarded email

624851 - Evolution mail client: Unable to load encryption cert from the smart card to send/receive encrypted messages.

626690 - [mail] HTML format - header 1 size Text becomes Normal after selecting strike, italic, underline format

628174 - [cal] Listview - Copy Paste is not working

630314 - [evol][ml_IN] - Translation Short-cuts are inconsistent

665967 - Free/busy fetch broken

667081 - evo - Crash in alarm-queue.c:display_notification

670917 - Evolution reports cancelled meeting is in disabled calendar

683402 - gnome bug #615384 - Use contact's free/busy URL only when not empty

689429 - Button "Open With" doesn't work

692658 - [PATCH] evolution can't load caldav calendars with a space in their name

694134 - Contacts in evolution-mapi address book are not searchable

694142 - Global Address List is not displayed when it loads for the first time

696620 - Crash in retrieval_done of OnTheWeb calendar

698243 - Alarms can't be set on meetings/appointments filed by others698246 - Calendar password dialog box has insane default

700726 - [i686] Folders are not migrated

700733 - Folder summary information is not properly updated after migration

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