CVE-2006-0528
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
GNOME Evolution 2.2.3/2.3.x - Inline XML File Attachment Buffer Overflow
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408/info
GNOME Evolution email client is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing messages containing inline XML file attachments with excessively long strings.
perl -e 'printf "A"x40000' > evolution-dos-poc.xml OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.2.3-4 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.2.3-4 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.2.3-4 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.2.3-4 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.2.3-4 |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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