CVE-2006-6297 describes a stack consumption vulnerability in the KFILE JPEG plugin within KDE's kdegraphics 3 suite, affecting applications like Konqueror and Digikam. A remote attacker can trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted JPEG file with a malicious EXIF section, leading to infinite recursion. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without authentication, but only results in a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdegraphics:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdegraphics:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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