Evolution Client crashes with segmentation fault during startup

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 Service Pack 1 (SLED 12 SP1)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 Service Pack 2 (SLED 12 SP2)

Situation

When Evolution Client is started, it crashes with a segmentation fault.
The coredump file read by gdb shows that the Evolution process is crashing with the following backtrace:

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f16900d3a40 (LWP 2010)):
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007f1687d1e9db in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#2 0x00007f1687d3496f in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#3 0x00007f1687d34c1c in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#4 0x00007f1687d7ee89 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#5 0x00007f1687d8159f in sqlite3_step () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#6 0x00007f1687d8239a in sqlite3_exec () from /usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
#7 0x00007f168eeae96a in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libcamel-1.2.so.45
#8 0x00007f168eeb040f in camel_db_select () from /usr/lib64/libcamel-1.2.so.45
#9 0x00007f168eeb0569 in camel_db_get_folder_uids ()
   from /usr/lib64/libcamel-1.2.so.45
#10 0x00007f168eec6280 in camel_folder_summary_load_from_db ()
   from /usr/lib64/libcamel-1.2.so.45
#11 0x00007f167814bab8 in ?? ()
   from /usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#12 0x00007f167813fa69 in camel_local_summary_load ()
   from /usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#13 0x00007f167813d66c in camel_local_folder_construct ()
   from /usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
#14 0x00007f1678148ce6 in camel_maildir_folder_new ()
   from /usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamellocal.so
......

This issue started to occur after a huge number of emails have been downloaded.

Resolution

This segmentation fault bug is fixed in SLED12 SP1/SP2 sqlite3 version 3.8.10.2-8.1.

Cause

This issue is caused by a bug inside sqlite3 packages.

Additional Information

SLED12 SP1/SP2 sqlite3 version 3.8.10.2-8.1 Release Notes:
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=C6mcWOSJZCw~
https://download.suse.com/Download?buildid=Exr9gwKtGsc~

- Avoid calling sqlite3OsFetch() on a file-handle for which the xFetch method is NULL.
This prevents a potential segmentation fault. (bsc#1025034)

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