CVE-2016-7966
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-23 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:13
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
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