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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- KMail 1.x - HTML Element Handling Denial of Service EDB-28816 · dos · Oct 16, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 24889 third-party-advisory
- 20061015 Re: [Full-disclosure] Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS mailing-list
- SUSE-SR:2007:006 vendor-advisory
- 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS mailing-list
- 20539 vdb-entry
- kmail-table-frameset-dos(29557) vdb-entry
- 20061014 Kmail <= 1.9.1 (table/frameset) DOS mailing-list
- 2347 third-party-advisory