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Under certain configurations, if a user were\ntricked into opening a specially crafted email, an attacker could\npossibly use this issue to obtain the plaintext of an encrypted email.\nThis update mitigates the issue by preventing KMail from automatically\nloading external content. (CVE-2017-17689)\n\nJens Müller, Marcus Brinkmann, Damian Poddebniak, Sebastian Schinzel,\nand Jörg Schwenk discovered that the KMail application of KDE PIM could\nbe made to leak the plaintext of S/MIME or PGP encrypted emails. If a\nuser were tricked into replying to a specially crafted email, an\nattacker could possibly use this issue to obtain the plaintext of an\nencrypted email. (CVE-2019-10732)\n\nIt was discovered that the KMail application of KDE PIM could be made to\nattach files to an email without the user's knowledge. If a user\nwere tricked into sending an email created by a specially crafted\n\"mailto\" link, an attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain\nsensitive files. 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