Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3005

Title: Gentoo Media-Libs Jpeg Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-3005.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 13, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.90%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3005: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gentoo 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889 http://secunia.com/advisories/20563 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml http://www.osvdb.org/26317 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130889 http://secunia.com/advisories/20563 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-11.xml http://www.osvdb.org/26317 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31451

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3005 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 13, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.