USN-3100-1: KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3100-1
12th October, 2016
kdepimlibs vulnerability
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 version:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
libkpimutils4
4:4.8.5-0ubuntu0.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart KMail to make all the
necessary changes.
References
Source: USN-3100-1: KDE-PIM Libraries vulnerability
