CVE-2006-6297

Publication date 5 December 2006

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

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.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kdegraphics 7.04 feisty Ignored end of life
6.10 edgy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life