Vulnerability CVE-2016-7966
Published: 2016-12-23   Modified: 2016-12-24

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
SUSE -> Linux enterprise 
KDE -> Kmail 
Fedoraproject -> Fedora 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00065.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3697
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/05/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93360
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QNMM5TVPTJQFPJ3YDF4DPXDFW3GQLWLY/
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