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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-3100-1 Moderate HTML Injection In KMail

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Calendar Grey October 12, 2016
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KMail may be susceptible to manipulation through specially designed emails that execute HTML injections, impacting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS along with its derivatives.
KMail could be made to run HTML if it opened a specially crafted email.

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.

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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

October 12, 2016

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Package Information

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

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