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alsa-2020:4649
Vulnerability from osv_almalinux
Published
2020-11-03 12:23
Modified
2021-11-12 10:20
Summary
Low: evolution security and bug fix update
Details

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
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  "id": "ALSA-2020:4649",
  "modified": "2021-11-12T10:20:55Z",
  "published": "2020-11-03T12:23:41Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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    "CVE-2020-14928"
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  "summary": "Low: evolution security and bug fix update"
}



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