Vulnerability CVE-2006-6297
Published: 2006-12-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

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
KDE -> Kdegraphics 

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