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Low ALSA-2020:4649 1 CVE

Low: evolution security and bug fix update

Published Nov 3, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 bogofilter 1.2.5-2.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 evolution-data-server-doc 3.28.5-14.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 evolution-data-server-perl 3.28.5-14.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 evolution-data-server-tests 3.28.5-14.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 evolution-devel 3.28.5-14.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-14928