CVE-2006-0528

Evolution vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

11.0%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

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 vendor

Gnome

Affected product

Evolution

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-02-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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