National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-7139

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/08/2007)

Not vulnerable. Our testing found that this issue did not affect the versions of Kmail as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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External Source: XF

Name: kmail-table-frameset-dos(29557)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29557

External Source: BID

Name: 20539

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20539

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/448768/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20061015 Re: [Full-disclosure] Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/448766/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2007:006

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2347

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24889

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24889

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html