Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-0040

Title: Gnome Evolution Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-0040.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 10, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.95%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-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 URLs, possibly due to unknown problems in gtkhtml.

Impacted Vendors

ximian 1

gnome 1

evolution 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/19094 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050 http://secunia.com/advisories/19094 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426452/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16899 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0801 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25050

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-0040 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 10, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.