CVE-2006-6660

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2006-6660 · Published 20/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6660 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting libkhtml (kde).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libkhtml kde	`≤ 4.2.0`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/21662.html · Exploit
securityfocus.com/bid/21662 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5071

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