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CVE-2006-0053

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-0053 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Tony Cook's Imager (libimager-perl) versions prior to 0.50. User-assisted attackers can trigger a segmentation fault by writing specific 2- or 4-channel JPEG or 2-channel TGA images to a scalar, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network-based attack with high access complexity and potential for partial availability impact. While no Metasploit or Nuclei exploits exist, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-27581) details a denial-of-service exploit, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.44_1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.44_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.45CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27581 · Apr 7, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0901 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
rt.cpan.org / Public/Bug/Display.html
secunia.com / advisories/19575
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/19577
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/25717
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1028
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/17415
ExploitPatch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/1294
Vendor Advisory