CVE-2016-7966

High

Description

Through a malicious URL that contained a quote character it was possible to inject HTML code in KMail's plaintext viewer. Due to the parser used on the URL it was not possible to include the equal sign (=) or a space into the injected HTML, which greatly reduces the available HTML functionality. Although it is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.3
Exploit probability—
ProductKde Kmail
PublishedDec 23, 2016
First seenDec 23, 2016

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
kde kmailv ≤ 4.4.0—
debian debian_linux8.0—
fedoraproject fedora25—
suse linux_enterprise12.0—

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