CVE-2006-2789: Gnome Evolution

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Evolution 2.2.x and 2.3.x in GNOME 2.7 and 2.8, when "load images if sender in addressbook" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via a crafted "From" header that triggers an assert error in camel-internet-address.c when a null pointer is used.

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