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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-16117: Low: evolution security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1752)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-16117: Low: evolution security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1752)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/29/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

In GNOME evolution-data-server before 3.35.91, a malicious server can crash the mail client with a NULL pointer dereference by sending an invalid (e.g., minimal) CAPABILITY line on a connection attempt. This is related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-evolution-data-server-doc
  • alma-upgrade-evolution-data-server-perl
  • alma-upgrade-evolution-data-server-tests
  • alma-upgrade-evolution-devel

References

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