CVE-2006-6660 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the nodeType function of KDE libkhtml versions 4.2.0 and earlier, impacting applications like Konquerer and KMail. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash affected programs through malformed HTML tags, potentially involving a COL SPAN tag within a RANGE tag. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), it is a medium-severity vulnerability requiring user interaction for exploitation, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed in CISA KEV, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:libkhtml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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