National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2789
Original release date:06/02/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Evolution 2.2.x and 2.3.x in GNOME 2.7 and 2.8, when "load images if sender in addressbook" is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (persistent crash) via a crafted "From" header that triggers an assert error in camel-internet-address.c when a null pointer is used.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of Evolution as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:094
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 18212
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309453
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:094