5.8 - RHSA-2019:3699

Problem Description:

An update for evolution, evolution-data-server, and evolution-ews is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

3. Description:

Evolution is a GNOME application that provides integrated email, calendar, contact management, and communications functionality.

Security Fix(es):

* evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified. (CVE-2019-3890)

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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update to take effect.

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1678313 - CVE-2019-3890 evolution-ews: all certificate errors ignored if configured to ignore an initial error in gnome-online-accounts creation resulting in the connection open to being viewed and modified. 1713619 - [abrt] test-cal-client-get-revision could fail due to delayed D-Bus property change notification 1724232 - Help Contents (F1) has a bad link to GNOME site 1724984 - [ECompEditor] Ensure attendee changes stored before save