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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2300-1 kdepim-runtime -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Jul 2020

Affected Packages:

kdepim-runtime

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-15954.

More information:

It was discovered that there was an issue where kdepim-runtime would default to using unencrypted POP3 communication despite the UI indicating that encryption was in use.

• CVE-2020-15954

  KDE KMail 19.12.3 (aka 5.13.3) engages in unencrypted POP3 communication during times when the UI indicates that encryption is in use.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4:16.04.2-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdepim-runtime packages.

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