RHBA-2015:0305 - 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.

Bugs:

• 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 situation. (BZ#1091882)
• Due to a memory corruption flaw, Evolution terminated unexpectedly after the migration from an mbox inbox to a maildir client. This update ensures that no events are left in the main loop before freeing migration structures, and as a result, Evolution runs properly after the migration completes. (BZ#1103823)
• Previously, pasting a contact already existing in the target address book opened a "Merge Contact" dialog window, which then expanded indefinitely without the user interaction. This update changes the widget packing, thus fixing this bug. (BZ#1033263)
• 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 this process have been corrected, and read messages are now marked as intended. (BZ#1070764)

• Prior to this update, some memory was not freed properly by the Evolution code. This update ensures that Evolution frees all the allocated memory properly, and memory leaks thus no longer occur. (BZ#1084414)
• When attempting 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. (BZ#1090629)
• When right-clicking an event in the Calendar view, the event tooltip could hide the context menu. This update ensures the tooltip is hidden before the context menu is shown, and the tooltip thus no longer overlaps the context menu. (BZ#1110370)
• Previously, when replying to a message with some text selected in it, the selected text was used as the new message body but any preformatted style or whitespace characters became lost in the new message. With this update, the preformatted style and any whitespace characters within are now preserved from the selection to the new message. (BZ#1113177)
• Prior to this update, the user name had to be specified even if the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server authentication was disabled. As a consequence, the dialog for creating a new account could not be finished without filling the username, even with the "Server requires authentication" box unchecked. Now, the state of the dialog is updated as soon as the server authentication is disabled, and the dialog can be finished successfully. (BZ#1116938)
• Previously, weather calendar internals did not work properly with the

libgweather library. As a consequence, when attempting to use weather calendars, no weather forecast events showed. The underlying source code
has been fixed, and the weather calendar events are now shown as intended. (BZ#1122645)

• When writing a new header name into the Edit->Preferences->Mail

Preferences->Headers tab and clicking the "Add" button next to the name,
Evolution terminated unexpectedly. A patch has been applied to fix this bug, and Evolution no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#1123136)

• If a calendar which was enabled and had events in the view was deleted, the whole calendar was removed, but its events were left in the view. With this update, the events from the view are also removed as expected. (BZ#1170671)
• This update also fixes various minor crashes in Evolution. (BZ#1098358,

BZ#1166665, BZ#1118996)

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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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

• BZ - 1033263 - Contacts deduplication dialog expands itself indefinitely
• BZ - 1070764 - mark messages as read set to 0 leads to occasional read mark skip
• BZ - 1070833 - Deleting/moving a message shifts the cursor focus in the message list when "collapse all threads" is enabled
• BZ - 1084414 - Fix memory leaks
• BZ - 1090629 - Filtered message not opened in a separate window
• BZ - 1091882 - [abrt] Labels GSettings busy loop
• BZ - 1098358 - [abrt] Run mail formatter in the main thread
• BZ - 1103823 - [abrt] Crash after migration to maildir
• BZ - 1110370 - The calendar's view tooltip doesn't go away
• BZ - 1113177 - Reply with selection can lose white-spaces
• BZ - 1116938 - SMTP part of a new mail account dialog doesn't update UI properly
• BZ - 1118996 - Evolution crash when trying to customize the view and column for mail
• BZ - 1122645 - Weather Calendars in Evolution 3.8 Don't Work
• BZ - 1123136 - Evolution crashes when adding a header to show
• BZ - 1170671 - Deleting calendar won't remove its events until restart

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal