Vulnerability CVE-2006-3005


Published: 2006-06-13   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The JPEG library in media-libs/jpeg before 6b-r7 on Gentoo Linux is built without the -maxmem feature, which could allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted JPEG file that exceeds the intended memory limits.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gentoo -> Media-libs jpeg 
Gentoo -> Linux 

 References:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/20563
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31451
http://www.osvdb.org/26317

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