addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2 might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because "the code had computed the required string length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via a long query that is processed by the strcat     function. NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because the code had computed the required string     length first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the heap. (CVE-2018-12422)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the versions of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - evolution-data-server (eds) through 3.36.3 has a     STARTTLS buffering issue that affects SMTP and POP3.
    When a server sends a 'begin TLS' response, eds reads     additional data and evaluates it in a TLS context, aka     'response injection.'(CVE-2020-14928)

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

  - 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.(CVE-2020-16117)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the versions of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

  - 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.(CVE-2020-16117)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the evolution-data-server packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - addressbook/backends/ldap/e-book-backend-ldap.c in     Evolution-Data-Server in GNOME Evolution through 3.29.2     might allow attackers to trigger a Buffer Overflow via     a long query that is processed by the strcat function.
    NOTE: the software maintainer disputes this because     'the code had computed the required string length     first, and then allocated a large-enough buffer on the     heap.'(CVE-2018-12422)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 3.28.4 upstream release

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
222171	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-12422	Nessus	Misc.	critical
146687	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2021-1293)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
145184	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2021-1065)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
144238	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : evolution-data-server (EulerOS-SA-2020-2544)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
120247	Fedora 28 : evolution / evolution-data-server / evolution-ews (2018-1434efb8f3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

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