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high 7.5

CVE-2006-0019 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in the encodeURI and decodeURI functions in the kjs JavaScript interpreter engine in KDE 3.2.0 through 3.5.0 all…

published 2006-01-20 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0027

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the encodeURI and decodeURI functions in the kjs JavaScript interpreter engine in KDE 3.2.0 through 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted, UTF-8 encoded URI.

Patch / fix

  • kdelibs RHEL 4 6:3.3.1-3.14

red hat advisories RHSA-2006:0184

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2006-0019 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-3.14 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-3.14 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-3.14 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-3.14
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2006:0184

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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