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CVE-2006-0528

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0528 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the cairo library, specifically impacting GNOME Evolution and potentially other applications. An attacker can trigger a persistent client crash by sending an email with an attached text file containing "Content-Disposition: inline" and an excessively long line in its body, likely due to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, an ExploitDB entry exists for GNOME Evolution versions 2.2.3/2.3.x, though there is no evidence of widespread community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27145 · Jan 28, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1101 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
secunia.com / advisories/19504
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/610
usn.ubuntu.com / 265-1
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/16408
Exploit