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Ubuntu 725-1 KMail Notice: Urgent Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 27, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A security flaw in KMail on Ubuntu allows for remote code execution via malicious links embedded in HTML emails. Users are recommended to update immediately.
It was discovered that Kmail did not adequately prevent execution of arbitrarycode when a user clicked on a URL to an executable within an HTML mail

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security advisory update critical remote code execution Ubuntu html email KMail

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kdepim vulnerability

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security advisory update critical remote code execution Ubuntu html email KMail

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