Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201679660000000
Revision Date:2016-12-23Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-7966 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-7966
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND kcoreaddons package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '5.18.0-0ubuntu1.1').
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