CVE-2006-0053

Exp

Imager (libimager-perl) before 0.50 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) by writing a 2- or 4-channel JPEG image (or a 2-channel TGA image) to a scalar, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Published: 2006-04-10 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-0053 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.5/100): CVSS Low severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 9.01%, 95th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +3.01% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-0053

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
27581 exploit_db edb 2006-04-07 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-0053

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 6.00% 9.01% +3.01%
2 2026-02-08 4.00% 6.00% +2.00%
3 2025-05-29 — 4.00% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-0053

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.6 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 4.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-0053

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-0053

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2006-0053 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (libimager-perl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-0053
ubuntu medium CVE-2006-0053 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libimager-perl), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): not-affected 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-0053

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-0053

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
tony_cook imager 0.41 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.42 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.43 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.44_1 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.44_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.45 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.45_2 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.45_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.47 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.47:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.48 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.48:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
tony_cook imager 0.49 cpe:2.3:a:tony_cook:imager:0.49:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-0053

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