1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3998-1

USN-3998-1: Evolution Data Server vulnerability

Publication date

30 May 2019

Overview

Evolution Data Server would sometimes display email content as encrypted when it was not.

Releases

Packages

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.

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.

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
18.04 bionic 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
16.04 xenial 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

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