CVE-2006-0528 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 11% (pctl 96)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| EPSS | 11.01% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-02-02 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| gnome | evolution |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | GNOME Evolution 2.2.3/2.3.x - Inline XML File Attachment Buffer Overflow | 2006-01-28 |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19504
- 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.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19504
- 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.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/
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