ALSA-2021:1752

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    ALSA-2021:1752

    Published: 18 May 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Low: evolution security, bug fix, and enhancement update

    Details: 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. Security Fix(es): * evolution-data-server: NULL pointer dereference related to imapx_free_capability and imapx_connect_to_server (CVE-2020-16117) 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.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evolution-data-server-doc

    Purl: pkg:rpm/almalinux/evolution-data-server-doc

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.28.5-15.el8

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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