Ubuntu alert USN-3100-1 (kdepimlibs)

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Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com> 
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[USN-3100-1] KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability 
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Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:11:08 -0400
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3100-1
October 12, 2016

kdepimlibs vulnerability
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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/4:4.8.5-0...


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