Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-2789

Title: Gnome Evolution Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-2789.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 02, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-2789: 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.

Impacted Vendors

ximian 1

gnome 1

evolution 1

Reference Links

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309453 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:094 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18212 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309453 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311440 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:094 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18212

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-2789 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.

June 02, 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:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.