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CVE-2006-3005

Medium
5/10

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published