CVE-2006-0528

Published Feb 2, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 11.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-0535 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-265-1 cairo/Evolution library vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 4:41 PM
Reserved
Feb 2, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 2, 2006, 11:02 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:20 PM