RHBA-2014:0714 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated evolution packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Evolution is a GNOME application that provides integrated email, calendar,
contact management and communications functionality. The components which make
up Evolution are tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless
personal information-management (PIM) tool.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, an automatic "mark message as seen" process could fail in certain

cases, which caused that a message was not automatically marked after reading.
With this update, conditions for the "mark message as seen" process have been
corrected, and read messages are now marked as intended. (BZ#1097268)

• Prior to this update, some memory was not freed properly by the Evolution

code. This update ensures that Evolution code frees all the allocated memory
properly, and memory leaks thus no longer occur. (BZ#1097269)

• When trying to open a message which did not belong to the current view filter,

a separate message window closed immediately, was opened empty, or a selected
message was not shown. This update makes sure that a selected message always
belongs to the view filter, thus fixing the bug. Filtered messages are now
successfully opened in a separate window. (BZ#1097270)

• Previously, certain user interactions could cause the evolution processes to

become unresponsive and consume a high percentage of CPU. A workaround to avoid
this state has been applied, and a busy loop is no longer triggered in this
case. (BZ#1097271)

Users of evolution are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs. All running instances of Evolution must be restarted for this update
to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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