National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6297
Original release date:12/05/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (12/19/2006)
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We do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror or other KFile users to be a security issue.
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External Source: BID
Name: 21384
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:073
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:227
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4810
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017325
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200701-05
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23728
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23300
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23213
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23203
Type: Advisory
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:227