Ubuntu Security Notice 3998-1 - 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.
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3998-1
May 30, 2019
evolution-data-server vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary:
Evolution Data Server would sometimes display email content as encrypted
when it was not.
Software Description:
- evolution-data-server: Evolution suite data server
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.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
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
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
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
After a standard system update you need to restart Evolution to make
all the necessary changes.
References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3998-1
CVE-2018-15587
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/3.18.5-1ubuntu1.2