BUG: Kmail client DoS

From: Andrey Kazakov (kazak@mail.axon.ru)
Date: 02/26/02


From: Andrey Kazakov <kazak@mail.axon.ru>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:19:21 +0200

Hello!
I found the folowing bug in Kmail 1.2 using KDE 2.1.1:
If the message body is about 55.x kbytes, client is going down(turns
absolutely not responding)

Andrey Kazakov

By the way:

Put the message to test in your mail directory:
Sample:
/root/Mail



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