ubuntu · CVE-2016-7968

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-23 22:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:11:43 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7968 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (kdepim, kf5-messagelib), 12 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 6, DNE 3, needs-triage 2, ignored 1.

Description:

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. HTML Mail contents were not sanitized for JavaScript and included code was executed.

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