CVE-2006-3005

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

gentoo Linux: all versions
gentoo Media-Libs Jpeg: 6b-r2, 6b-r3, 6b-r4, 6b-r5, 6b-r6

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
http://secunia.com/advisories/20563
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/26317
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889
http://secunia.com/advisories/20563
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml
http://www.osvdb.org/26317
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451

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