CVE-2006-0528

GNOME Evolution - Denial of Service via Long Line in Inline Text Attachment

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-0528. PoCs published by Mike Davis.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit generates a large XML file to trigger a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME Evolution when processing inline XML attachments with excessively long strings.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Mike Davis · textdoslinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27145

This exploit generates a large XML file to trigger a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME Evolution when processing inline XML attachments with excessively long strings.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: GNOME Evolution email client
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Ability to send an email with an inline XML attachment to the target
mistral-large-3 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_07_sr.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/610
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:057
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-01/0925.html
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/19504

Scores

EPSS 0.1076
EPSS Percentile 95.3%

Details

Status published
Products (8)
gnome/evolution 2.3.1
gnome/evolution 2.3.2
gnome/evolution 2.3.3
gnome/evolution 2.3.4
gnome/evolution 2.3.5
gnome/evolution 2.3.6
gnome/evolution 2.3.6.1
gnome/evolution 2.3.7
Published Feb 02, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026