CVE-2006-6297

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.

Published: 2006-12-05 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-6297 is rated Moderate Risk (50.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.61%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-6297

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 2025-12-29 1.72% 2.61% +0.89%
2 2025-03-30 1.62% 1.72% +0.10%
3 2025-03-29 — 1.62% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-6297

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/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:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
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.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-6297

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-6297

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-6297: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-6297
gentoo normal CVE-2006-6297: 1 GLSA(s) (200701-05), 1 atom(s) (kde-base/kdegraphics-kfile-plugins); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2006-6297
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-6297
ubuntu negligible CVE-2006-6297 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdegraphics), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): ignored 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2006-6297

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2006-6297

  • Red Hat (2006-12-19T00:00:00)

    We do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror or other KFile users to be a security issue.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-6297

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde kdegraphics 3.2 cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdegraphics:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
kde kdegraphics 3.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:kde:kdegraphics:3.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-6297

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