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RHSA-2020:4649 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: evolution security and bug fix update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 4, 2020

Updated · June 27, 2026

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

Description

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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