CVE-2006-3005

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451

http://www.osvdb.org/26317

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/20563

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-06-13

Updated: 2017-07-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium