CVE-2006-6297

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the KFILE JPEG (kfile_jpeg) plugin in kdegraphics 3, as used by konqueror, digikam, and other KDE image browsers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted EXIF section in a JPEG file, which results in an infinite recursion.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23203Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23300Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23728Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-05.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017325
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:227
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4810Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23203Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23300Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23728Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-05.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017325
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:227
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4810Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Dec 5, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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