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