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Kmail (table/frameset) DoS
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SUMMARY
"KMail is a fully-featured email client that fits nicely into the K
Desktop Environment, KDE. It has features such as support for IMAP, POP3,
multiple accounts, powerful filters, PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline
attachments, and much more."
Kmail can be crashed due to incorrectly parsing certain HTML elements.
DETAILS
Vulnerable Systems:
* KDE 3.5.2 and kmail 1.9.1 (tested on)
Background:
Kmail is a HTML compatible email client that comes installed by default
with the KDE desktop. This DOS requires HTML parsing to be enabled. This
can be done in Kmail by going to Settings -> Configure Kmail ->Security
-> and tick Prefer HTML to Plain Text.
Description:
Kmail can be crashed due to incorrectly parsing certain HTML elements. In
this case the a combination of the and tags are incorrectly parsed
leading to a segmentation fault. A sample mail can be found here
<http://silenthack.co.uk/nnp/exploits/kmail/tableCrash>
http://silenthack.co.uk/nnp/exploits/kmail/tableCrash.
To reproduce the crash, copy the above mail into your local mail spool
file (e.g /var/mail/`whoami`) or send it to yourself (without the email
headers obviously). Double click the new mail and when it opens close it
again. On closing it the program should crash and give the following stack
trace:
[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb790a334 in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#7 0xb7aab8b1 in operator delete () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#8 0xb7aab8fd in operator delete[] () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
#9 0xb6cd05d8 in non-virtual thunk to
DOM::HTMLObjectBaseElementImpl::~HTMLObjectBaseElementImpl() () from
/usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#10 0x084de030 in ?? ()
#11 0x084d03e8 in ?? ()
#12 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#13 0xb6e43aec in ?? () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#14 0x084d03e8 in ?? ()
#15 0x00000000 in ?? ()
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:version5@gmail.com> nnp.
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