addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2 might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because "the code had computed the required string length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - evolution-data-server: Unsafe use of strcat allows buffer overflow in addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-     backend-ldap.c (CVE-2018-12422)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - evolution-data-server: Unsafe use of strcat allows buffer overflow in addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-     backend-ldap.c (CVE-2018-12422)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

According to the versions of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - evolution-data-server (eds) through 3.36.3 has a     STARTTLS buffering issue that affects SMTP and POP3.
    When a server sends a 'begin TLS' response, eds reads     additional data and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka     'response injection.'(CVE-2020-14928)

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

  - In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a     malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL     pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g.,     minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This     is related to imapx_free_capability and     imapx_connect_to_server.(CVE-2020-16117)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

  - In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a     malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL     pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g.,     minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This     is related to imapx_free_capability and     imapx_connect_to_server.(CVE-2020-16117)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 3.28.4 upstream release

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
200011	RHEL 5 : evolution-data-server (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
199999	RHEL 6 : evolution-data-server (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196336	RHEL 5 : evolution-data-server (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196318	RHEL 6 : evolution-data-server (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196256	RHEL 7 : evolution-data-server (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
146687	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2021-1293)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
145184	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2021-1065)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
144238	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2020-2544)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
120247	Fedora 28 : evolution / evolution-data-server / evolution-ews (2018-1434efb8f3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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