CVE-2006-6297

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the KFILE JPEG (kfile_jpeg) plugin in kdegraphics 3, as used by konqueror, digikam, and other KDE image browsers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted EXIF section in a JPEG file, which results in an infinite recursion.

Affected products

Kdegraphics: 3.2, 3.4.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23203
http://secunia.com/advisories/23213
http://secunia.com/advisories/23300
http://secunia.com/advisories/23728
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-05.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017325
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20061129-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:227
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_73_mono.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21384
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4810
http://secunia.com/advisories/23203

Get alerted when CVE-2006-6297 or the next vulnerability affects your stack