Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0095: evolution (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0095)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236487

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2022:0095 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2019-3890:
It was discovered evolution-ews before 3.31.3 does not check the validity of SSL certificates. An attacker could abuse this flaw to get confidential information by tricking the user into connecting to a fake server without the user noticing the difference.

CVE-2020-14928:
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-2020-16117:
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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20220095.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236487

File Name: alinux3_sa_2022-0095.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3890

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-mapi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-mapi-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-tests-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bogofilter, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-spamassassin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-bogofilter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-client, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bogofilter-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bogofilter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-bogofilter, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:bogofilter-bogoupgrade, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-help, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-tests, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-pst, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:openchange-devel-docs, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-spamassassin, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-perl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-mapi, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-data-server-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-pst-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-langpacks, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:evolution-mapi-langpacks

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3890, CVE-2020-14928, CVE-2020-16117