CVE-2006-6297 Information

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.

Reference

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