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RHEL 8 : evolution (RHSA-2020:4649)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 142417
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for evolution.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4649 advisory.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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL evolution package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4649.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?57b3d587
http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4649
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1825447
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836165
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 142417
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4649.nasl
Version: 1.13
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/4/2020
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14928
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-mapi-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-mapi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-bogofilter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:bogofilter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-pst, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openchange, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-help, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-14928