Vulnerability in KDE Kdegraphics
CVE-2006-6297
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.022 (82.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- KDE Kdegraphics — versions 3.2, 3.4.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/23728 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23203 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-05.xml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23213 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21384 (vdb-entry)
- www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4810 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23300 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)