Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kdepim  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-KDEPIM-619674
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016

Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-7968  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kdepim package and not the kdepim package as distributed by Ubuntu.

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.