CVE-2006-0040

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.

Affected products

GNOME Evolution: 2.4.2.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19094
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050
http://secunia.com/advisories/19094
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050

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