National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3005
Original release date:06/13/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/24/2006)
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Red Hat does not consider this a security issue. It is expected behavior that a large input file will cause the processing program to use a large amount of memory.
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External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200606-11
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20563
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
External Source: XF
Name: jpeg-medialibs-dos(31451)
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 26317