CVE-2016-7967 (GCVE-0-2016-7967)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-23 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
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Summary
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.
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