Upstream information

CVE-2016-7966 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.3
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1002977 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP1
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.20.0-6.1
  • kcoreaddons-devel >= 5.20.0-6.1
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.20.0-6.1
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.20.0-6.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2016-1200
openSUSE Leap 15.0
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.45.0-lp150.1.2
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.45.0-lp150.1.2
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.45.0-lp150.1.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA kcoreaddons-5.45.0-lp150.1.2
openSUSE Leap 15.2
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.71.0-lp152.1.1
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.71.0-lp152.1.1
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.71.0-lp152.1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA kcoreaddons-5.71.0-lp152.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.76.0-bp153.1.16
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.76.0-bp153.1.16
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.76.0-bp153.1.16
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA kcoreaddons-5.76.0-bp153.1.16
openSUSE Leap 15.4
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.90.0-150400.1.4
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.90.0-150400.1.4
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.90.0-150400.1.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA kcoreaddons-5.90.0-150400.1.4
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • kcoreaddons >= 5.29.0-1.1
  • kcoreaddons-devel >= 5.29.0-1.1
  • kcoreaddons-devel-32bit >= 5.29.0-1.1
  • kcoreaddons-lang >= 5.29.0-1.1
  • libKF5CoreAddons5 >= 5.29.0-1.1
  • libKF5CoreAddons5-32bit >= 5.29.0-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA kcoreaddons-5.29.0-1.1

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Package Hub 12 SP1 kcoreaddons Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 kdepim4 Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 kdepim4 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 kdepim4 Analysis

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Oct 5 05:15:13 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Sep 11 18:04:03 2023