PT-2016-7449

CVE-2016-7966

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Published

2016-10-05

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Updated

2016-12-27

Description by

CVSS 2.0
7.5
High
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions KMail (affected versions not specified)
Description The issue allows for HTML code injection in KMail's plaintext viewer through a malicious URL containing a quote character. However, the parser used on the URL limits the injected HTML functionality by not allowing the inclusion of the equal sign (=) or a space. It is possible to include an HTML comment indicator to hide content.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Researchers
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Related identifiers
DLA-673-1
DSA-3697-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2558-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2559-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10509-1
USN-3100-1
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