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RHEL 8 : evolution (RHSA-2021:1752)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149701

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1752 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.

 Security Fix(es):

 * evolution-data-server: NULL pointer dereference related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server (CVE-2020-16117)

 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 8.4 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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?285c18b3

http://www.nessus.org/u?862005a9

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1752

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1862125

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1883619

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1885229

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886026

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902630

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149701

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1752.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16117

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:N/A:H

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-pst, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-ews-langpacks, 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:evolution-ews, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-data-server-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:evolution-spamassassin, 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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16117

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2021:1752