CVE-2006-0528

Exp

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.

Published: 2006-02-02 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-0528 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 9.17%, 95th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.06% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-0528

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
27145 exploit_db edb 2006-01-28 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-0528

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 5.11% 9.17% +4.06%
2 2025-03-30 4.06% 5.11% +1.05%
3 2025-03-29 — 4.06% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-0528

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-0528

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-0528

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2006-0528 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (evolution), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-0528
suse high CVE-2006-0528 severity important: SUSE including 18 source package names (cairo-devel-1.16.0-3.14, cairo-devel-1.18.4-160000.2.2, …), 18 product×package rows across 4 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0, SUSE Linux Micro 6.0, SUSE Linux Micro 6.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed): Fixed 18. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-0528/
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-0528 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (evolution, libcairo), 8 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 5, needs-triage 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-0528

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-0528

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
gnome evolution 2.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.2 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.3 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.4 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.5 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.6 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.6.1 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gnome evolution 2.3.7 cpe:2.3:a:gnome:evolution:2.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-0528

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