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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.1% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 24889 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 20061015 Re: [Full-disclosure] Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2007:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20539 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• kmail-table-frameset-dos(29557) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 2347 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:50 UTC.