CVE-2006-6297
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
We do not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror or other KFile users to be a security issue.
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