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
Published Mar 7, 2007
2.6
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.13%
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.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat statement
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.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
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| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 3.13% (0.03128) | 87.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.03% (0.03032) | 85.72th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Feb 28, 2026 | 9.47% (0.09470) | 92.66th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 8.25% (0.08254) | 91.61th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 8.34% (0.08342) | 94.38th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 9, 2024 | 3.24% (0.03236) | 90.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 2, 2023 | 3.48% (0.03476) | 90.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 25, 2023 | 3.59% (0.03592) | 90.56th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 9, 2023 | 3.67% (0.03671) | 90.49th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 5.11% (0.05108) | 91.68th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 7.20% (0.07197) | 92.42th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 7.20% (0.07197) | 91.69th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 7.20% (0.07197) | 80.47th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (11)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24889 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448766/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448768/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20539 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7139 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29557 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7139
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7139
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-10/0293.html | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/24889 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory | |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2347 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON | |
| http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448766/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448768/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20539 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7139 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29557 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7139 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7139 |
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