CVE-2009-3721: Gnome Evolution

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal and buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in yTNEF, and in Evolution's TNEF parser that is derived from yTNEF. A crafted email could cause these applications to write data in arbitrary locations on the filesystem, crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code when decoding attachments.

Affected products

• Gnome Evolution: any version
• Ytnef Project Ytnef: any version

Published 2021-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.