CVE-2006-6297 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6297
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html ST 1017325 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23203 Secunia Advisory: SA23213 Secunia Advisory: SA23300 Secunia Advisory: SA23728 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:227 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-05.xml CONFIRM http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt BID 21384

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