CVE-2006-0528

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

GNOME Evolution: 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 2.3.6 (+2)

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

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