| Name | CVE-2006-2789 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| evolution (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 3.22.6-1+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 3.30.5-1.1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.38.3-1+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.46.4-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.54.2-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| evolution | source | sarge | (not affected) | | | |
| evolution | source | (unstable) | 2.4.0-1 | low | | |
Notes
[sarge] - evolution <not-affected> (Not reproducible on Sarge's evolution)
Verified that the patch has been applied in 2.4.0-1,
may have been fixed earlier.