CVE-2006-7139

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

KDE K-Mail: 1.9.1

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
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
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29557
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24889
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html

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