GNOME Evolution 2.22.2 - 'html_engine_get_view_width()' Denial of Service

Author: Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian
type: dos
platform: linux
port: 0
date_added: 2008-06-26
date_updated: 2014-02-28
verified: 1
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29961/info

GNOME Evolution is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when handling email messages that contain specially crafted HTML.

Successful attacks will crash the application.

Evolution 2.22.2 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

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