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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-3005
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CVE-2006-3005

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31451

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20563

OSVDB
  26317

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml

CONFIRM
  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889


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