CVE-2005-2550: Gnome Evolution

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in Evolution 1.4 through 2.3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via the calendar entries such as task lists, which are not properly handled when the user selects the Calendars tab.

Affected products

• Gnome Evolution: version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.2 only; version 2.3.1 only; …

Published 2005-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.