Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3100-1

USN-3100-1: KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability

Publication date

12 October 2016

Overview

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

Releases

12.04

Packages

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
12.04 precise	libkpimutils4 – 4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3

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References

CVE-2016-7966

CVE-2016-7966