Bug 1382288 – CVE-2016-7967 kdepim: JavaScript access to local and remote URLs in Kmail

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Bug 1382288 - (CVE-2016-7967) CVE-2016-7967 kdepim: JavaScript access to local and remote URLs in Kmail

Summary:	CVE-2016-7967 kdepim: JavaScript access to local and remote URLs in Kmail

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-7967

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1382296 1382297 1382298 1382299 1383610
Blocks:	1382295
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Reported:	2016-10-06 05:21 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified:	2017-03-24 04:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	8 users (show)

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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 05:21:43 EDT

KMail since version 5.3.0 used a QWebEngine based viewer that had JavaScript enabled. Since the generated html is executed in the local file security context by default access to remote and local URLs was enabled.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/23

External References:

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20161006-2.txt

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 05:32:58 EDT

Created kdepim3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1382297]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1382299]

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 05:33:07 EDT

Created kdepim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1382296]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 05:33:14 EDT

Created kdepim4 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1382298]

Comment 4 Ngo Than 2016-10-10 09:46:42 EDT

Adam, this issue is effected in kf5-messagelib. Could you please change it to correct component?

thanks

Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2016-10-11 04:48:46 EDT

Created kf5-messagelib tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1383610]

Comment 6 Adam Mariš 2016-10-11 04:51:33 EDT

(In reply to Ngo Than from comment #4)
> Adam, this issue is effected in kf5-messagelib. Could you please change it
> to correct component?

Done! Does the same apply for CVE-2016-7968?

Thanks!

Comment 7 Ngo Than 2016-10-11 08:43:18 EDT

(In reply to Adam Mariš from comment #6)
> (In reply to Ngo Than from comment #4)
> > Adam, this issue is effected in kf5-messagelib. Could you please change it
> > to correct component?
> 
> Done! Does the same apply for CVE-2016-7968?
> 
> Thanks!

yes, it's same for CVE-2016-7968

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-10-30 13:54:18 EDT

kdepim-16.08.2-1.fc24, kdepim-addons-16.08.2-1.fc24, kdepim-apps-libs-16.08.2-1.fc24, kdepim-runtime-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-calendar-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-contacts-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-mime-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-notes-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-search-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-akonadi-server-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-calendarsupport-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-eventviews-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-gpgmepp-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-grantleetheme-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-incidenceeditor-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kalarmcal-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kblog-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kcalendarcore-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kcalendarutils-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kcontacts-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kdgantt2-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kholidays-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kidentitymanagement-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kimap-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kldap-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kmailtransport-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kmbox-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kmime-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kontactinterface-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-kpimtextedit-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-ktnef-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-libgravatar-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-libkdepim-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-libkleo-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-libksieve-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-mailcommon-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-mailimporter-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-messagelib-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-pimcommon-16.08.2-1.fc24, kf5-syndication-16.08.2-1.fc24, kleopatra-16.08.2-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Cedric Buissart 2017-03-24 04:26:30 EDT

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of kdepim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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