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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2020:1600-01 Moderate: Evolution Email Fix

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat reveals an Evolution upgrade focused on addressing critical security flaws, particularly a significant email impersonation threat.
An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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.

Summary

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat bug fix evolution email application CVE-2018-15587

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15587 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: evolution-3.28.5-12.el8.src.rpm evolution-data-server-3.28.5-13.el8.src.rpm evolution-ews-3.28.5-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: evolution-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-bogofilter-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-bogofilter-debuginfo-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-data-server-3.28.5-13.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-data-server-debuginfo-3.28.5-13.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-data-server-debugsource-3.28.5-13.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-3.28.5-13.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-data-server-tests-debuginfo-3.28.5-13.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-debuginfo-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-debugsource-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-ews-3.28.5-9.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-ews-debuginfo-3.28.5-9.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-ews-debugsource-3.28.5-9.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-pst-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-pst-debuginfo-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-spamassassin-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm evolution-spamassassin-debuginfo-3.28.5-12.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: evolution-data-server-langpacks-3.28.5-13.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-ews-langpacks-3.28.5-9.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-help-3.28.5-12.el8.noarch.rpm evolution-langpacks-3.28.5-12.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: evolution-3.28.5-12.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1600-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1600
Issue date: 2020-04-28

Topic

An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat bug fix evolution email application CVE-2018-15587

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1677650 - CVE-2018-15587 evolution: specially crafted email leading to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages

1741091 - Birthday date of Contact depends on system timezone

1753220 - GalA11yETableItem: Incorrect implementation of AtkObjectClass::ref_child()

1764818 - Sync CategoryList with mail Labels

1765005 - Reject creating meetings organized by other users1778799 - New Mail account wizard ignores email address change

1788478 - EDBusServer: Delay new module load

1791547 - [abrt] [faf] test-cal-meta-backend cannot run without installed Evolution

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