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Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kdepim  (opens in a new tab)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-619683
  • published23 Dec 2016
  • disclosed23 Dec 2016
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Introduced: 23 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-7966  (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.

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.