CVE-2006-7139 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Kmail 1.9.1 on KDE 3.5.2 when "Prefer HTML to Plain Text" is enabled. Remote attackers can crash the application by sending a specially crafted HTML email containing certain table and frameset tags, leading to a segmentation fault. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network attack vector with high complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, though a proof-of-concept exploit is available on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:k-mail:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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