FKIE_CVE-2006-3005

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-06-13 10:02 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/20563Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.osvdb.org/26317
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/20563Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.osvdb.org/26317
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gentoo media-libs_jpeg 6b
gentoo media-libs_jpeg 6b
gentoo media-libs_jpeg 6b
gentoo media-libs_jpeg 6b
gentoo media-libs_jpeg 6b
gentoo linux *
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