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evolution — security advisory
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.
- Products
- evolution
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.10.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-0040
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0040
evolution
Fixed versions: 2.10.1
evolution
Fixed versions: 2.10.1
evolution
Fixed versions: 2.10.1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2006-0040",
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:21.298678574Z",
"provider": "osv",
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 410301,
"published_at": "2006-03-10T01:02:00+00:00"
}