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CVE-2006-0528 (GCVE-0-2006-0528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-02 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:41
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/265-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/610 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
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http://secunia.com/advisories/19504 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2006-01-28 00:00
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    }
  }
}



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Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.