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Ubuntu 18.04 & 16.04: USN-3998-1 Critical Evolution Email Display Issue

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3999-1 addresses a vulnerability within the NetworkManager service that may expose sensitive information.
Evolution Data Server would sometimes display email content as encrypted when it was not.

Summary

Evolution Data Server would sometimes display email content as encrypted

when it was not.

Software Description:

- evolution-data-server: Evolution suite data server

Details:

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that Evolution Data Server did not correctly

interpret the output from GPG when decrypting encrypted messages. Under

certain circumstances, this could result in displaying clear-text portions

of encrypted messages as though they were encrypted.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu encryption issue email issue Evolution Data Server data display GPG error

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  evolution-data-server           3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  evolution-data-server-common    3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  libcamel-1.2-61                 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  libebackend-1.2-10              3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  libedataserver-1.2-23           3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  evolution-data-server           3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2
  evolution-data-server-common    3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2
  libcamel-1.2-54                 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2
  libebackend-1.2-10              3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2
  libedataserver-1.2-21           3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2

After a standard system update you need to restart Evolution to make
all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3998-1

CVE-2018-15587

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May 30, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory Ubuntu encryption issue email issue Evolution Data Server data display GPG error

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2

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