CVE-2006-1060

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in zgv before 5.8 and xzgv before 0.8 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG image with more than 3 output components, such as a CMYK or YCCK color space, which causes less memory to be allocated than required.

Affected products

Xzgv: through 0.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19571
http://secunia.com/advisories/19572
http://secunia.com/advisories/19731
http://secunia.com/advisories/19757
http://secunia.com/advisories/19779
http://secunia.com/advisories/19790
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/756
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1037
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1038
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_08_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17409
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1288

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