Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6660 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in KDE LibkHTML NodeType Function
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The nodeType function in KDE libkhtml 4.2.0 and earlier, as used by Konquerer, KMail, and other programs, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed HTML tags, possibly involving a COL SPAN tag embedded in a RANGE tag.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | KDE LibkHTML 4.2 NodeType Function Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-6660. Dos exploit for linux platform |
| id | EDB-ID:29296 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2006-12-19 |
| published | 2006-12-19 |
| reporter | Federico L. Bossi Bonin |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/29296/ |
| title | KDE LibkHTML 4.2 NodeType Function Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2007-02-02 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of KDE as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4. |