CVE-2006-2789

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Evolution 2.2.x and 2.3.x in GNOME 2.7 and 2.8, when "load images if sender in addressbook" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via a crafted "From" header that triggers an assert error in camel-internet-address.c when a null pointer is used.

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://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309453
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:094
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18212
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309453
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:094
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18212

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