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CVE-2006-7139

Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5.2, with "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5.2, with "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an HTML e-mail with certain table and frameset tags that trigger a segmentation fault, possibly involving invalid free or delete operations.

LOW · CVSS 2.6 EPSS 0.0947
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  • EPSS percentile: top 7% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-20Improper Input Validation
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Affected Products & Versions

1
kde k-mailall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

2
dosKMail 1.x - HTML Element Handling Denial of Serviceverified
pocarchives.neohapsis.com · 0293.htmlarchives.neohapsis.com
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Scoring & Timeline

2.6
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD07 Mar 2007 · 08:19 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448766/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448768/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20539
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