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title: "CVE-2006-7139\n    | Ubuntu"
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-7139?format=md
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# CVE-2006-7139

Publication date 7 March 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-7139?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| kdepim | 7.04 feisty | Ignored |
| 6.10 edgy | Ignored |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [kees](https://launchpad.net/~kees)

not a security issue.

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7139)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7139)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2006-7139)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-7139)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7139>