=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3100-1
October 12, 2016

kdepimlibs vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

KMail could be made to run HTML if it opened a specially crafted email.

Software Description:
- kdepimlibs: the KDE PIM libraries

Details:

Roland Tapken discovered that the KDE-PIM Libraries incorrectly filtered
URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an HTML injection
attack in the KMail plain text viewer.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  libkpimutils4                   4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

After a standard system update you need to restart KMail to make all the
necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3100-1
  CVE-2016-7966

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepimlibs/4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 3100-1: KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability

October 12, 2016
KMail could be made to run HTML if it opened a specially crafted email.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libkpimutils4 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3 After a standard system update you need to restart KMail to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3100-1

CVE-2016-7966

Severity
October 12, 2016

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepimlibs/4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

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