CVE-2006-0040
published 2006-03-10CVE-2006-0040: GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of…
PriorityP417medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EPSS
1.95%
77.8th percentile
GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.
Affected
6 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | evolution | < evolution 2.10.1 (bookworm) | evolution 2.10.1 (bookworm) |
| gnome | evolution | — | — |
| gnome | evolution | >= 0 < 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 |
| gnome | evolution | >= 0 < 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 |
| gnome | evolution | >= 0 < 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 |
| gnome | evolution | >= 0 < 2.10.1 | 2.10.1 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv5.0MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.0LOW
vendor_redhat5.0MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-hw2m-rcmq-r2rj: GNOME Evolution 2
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-01
CVE-2006-0040 [MEDIUM] GHSA-hw2m-rcmq-r2rj: GNOME Evolution 2
GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.
OSV
CVE-2006-0040: GNOME Evolution 2
osv·2006-03-10·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2006-0040 [MEDIUM] CVE-2006-0040: GNOME Evolution 2
GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.
Red Hat
DoS from large email
vendor_redhat·2006-03-01·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2006-0040 [MEDIUM] DoS from large email
DoS from large email
GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.
Package: evolution (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4) - Will not fix
Package: evolution (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2006-0040: evolution - GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...
vendor_debian·2006·CVSS 5.0
CVE-2006-0040 [MEDIUM] CVE-2006-0040: evolution - GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of...
GNOME Evolution 2.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a text e-mail with a large number of URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 2.10.1)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 2.10.1)
forky: resolved (fixed in 2.10.1)
sid: resolved (fixed in 2.10.1)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 2.10.1)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://secunia.com/advisories/19094http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050http://secunia.com/advisories/19094http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050
2006-03-10
Published