Executive Summary

Summary
Title KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3100-1 First vendor Publication 2016-10-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-10-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score N/A Attack Range N/A
Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3100-1
CVE-2016-7966

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

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3100-1

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Date Informations
2016-10-14 13:25:02
  • Multiple Updates
2016-10-12 17:24:31
  • First insertion