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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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