CVE-2006-0053

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Imager (libimager-perl) before 0.50 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by writing a 2- or 4-channel JPEG image (or a 2-channel TGA image) to a scalar, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Tony Cook Imager: 0.41, 0.42, 0.43, 0.44_1, 0.45, 0.45_2 (+3)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359661
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
http://secunia.com/advisories/19575
http://secunia.com/advisories/19577
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1028
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17415
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1294
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25717
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=359661
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
http://secunia.com/advisories/19575
http://secunia.com/advisories/19577

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