CVE-2006-0528: Gnome Evolution

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Gnome Evolution: version 2.3.1 only; version 2.3.2 only; version 2.3.3 only; version 2.3.4 only; version 2.3.5 only; version 2.3.6 only; …

Published 2006-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.