CVE-2006-7139

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29557

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

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

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

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

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347

http://secunia.com/advisories/24889

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-03-07

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.08254