CVE-2006-3005

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The JPEG library in media-libs/jpeg before 6b-r7 on Gentoo Linux is built without the -maxmem feature, which could allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a crafted JPEG file that exceeds the intended memory limits.

Find out more about CVE-2006-3005 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat does not consider this a security issue. It is expected behavior that a large input file will cause the processing program to use a large amount of memory.

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