CVE-2006-0528
The cairo library (libcairo), as used in GNOME Evolution and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent client crash) via an attached text file that contains "Content-Disposition: inline" in the header, and…
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Description
The cairo library (libcairo), as used in GNOME Evolution and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent client crash) via an attached text file that contains "Content-Disposition: inline" in the header, and a very long line in the body, which causes the client to repeatedly crash until the e-mail message is manually removed, possibly due to a buffer overflow, as demonstrated using an XML attachment.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 11.01% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- gnome/evolution
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19504Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/610
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:057
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408Exploit
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19504Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/610
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:057
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.htmlVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408Exploit
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.