USN-4429-1: Evolution Data Server vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• evolution-data-server - Evolution suite data server

Details

It was discovered that Evolution Data Server incorrectly handled STARTTLS
when using SMTP and POP3. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue
to perform a response injection attack.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04

• evolution-data-server - 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
• evolution-data-server-common - 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
• libcamel-1.2-62 - 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
• libebackend-1.2-10 - 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1
• libedataserver-1.2-24 - 3.36.3-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• evolution-data-server - 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
• evolution-data-server-common - 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
• libcamel-1.2-61 - 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
• libebackend-1.2-10 - 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
• libedataserver-1.2-23 - 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04

• evolution-data-server - 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.3
• evolution-data-server-common - 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.3
• libcamel-1.2-54 - 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.3
• libebackend-1.2-10 - 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.3
• libedataserver-1.2-21 - 3.18.5-1ubuntu1.3

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2020-14928