Debian DLA-1766-1 : evolution security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 124339

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Hanno Böck discovered that GNOME Evolution is prone to OpenPGP signatures being spoofed for arbitrary messages using a specially crafted HTML email. This issue was mitigated by moving the security bar with encryption and signature information above the message headers.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your evolution packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00027.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/evolution

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 124339

File Name: debian_DLA-1766.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15587

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution-plugins-experimental, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution-plugins, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libevolution, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:evolution-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/11/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15587