1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1922-1

USN-1922-1: Evolution Data Server vulnerability

Publication date

31 July 2013

Overview

Evolution would sometimes encrypt email to the wrong recipient.

Releases

Packages

Details

Yves-Alexis Perez discovered that Evolution Data Server did not properly
select GPG recipients. Under certain circumstances, this could result in
Evolution encrypting email to an unintended recipient.

Yves-Alexis Perez discovered that Evolution Data Server did not properly
select GPG recipients. Under certain circumstances, this could result in
Evolution encrypting email to an unintended recipient.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
13.04 raring libcamel-1.2-40 –  3.6.4-0ubuntu1.1
12.10 quantal libcamel-1.2-40 –  3.6.2-0ubuntu0.2
12.04 precise libcamel-1.2-29 –  3.2.3-0ubuntu7.1

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