Debian: DSA-3697-1: kdepimlibs security update

Date21 Oct 2016

Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

Roland Tapken discovered that insufficient input sanitising in KMail's plain text viewer allowed the injection of HTML code. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3697-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
October 21, 2016                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : kdepimlibs
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-7966

Roland Tapken discovered that insufficient input sanitising in KMail's
plain text viewer allowed the injection of HTML code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 4:4.14.2-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your kdepimlibs packages.

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