CVE-2006-6297

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-6297
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-12-05 11:28:00 UTC
Updated2011-08-04 04:00:00 UTC
DescriptionStack 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kdegraphics 3.2 All All All
Application Kde Kdegraphics 3.4.3 All All All
Application Kde Kdegraphics 3.2 All All All
Application Kde Kdegraphics 3.4.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo update for kdegraphics-kfile-plugins - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - KDE kdegraphics JPEG kfile-info Plug-in EXIF Parsing Flaw Lets Remote Users Deny Service SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2006:227 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
KDE JPEG KFile Info Plug-in EXIF Local Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
KDE kfile JPEG info plugin: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
KDE JPEG kfile-info EXIF Denial of Service Weakness - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Mandriva update for kdegraphics - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt CONFIRM www.kde.org
SUSE update for mono - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-12-19Mark J CoxWe do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror or other KFile users to be a security issue.
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