CVE-2006-7139 (GCVE-0-2006-7139)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-03-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/24889 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448766/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448768/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20539 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclo… | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
Date Public
2006-10-14 00:00
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