National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6660

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/02/2007)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of KDE as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-5071

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5071

External Source: BID

Name: 21662

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21662

External Source: MISC

Name: http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/21662.html

Hyperlink:http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/21662.html