PT-2017-14200 · Irfanview · Irfanview

Published 2017-10-22 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2017-15769

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IrfanView versions 4.50

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dds file, related to "Read Access Violation starting at FORMATS!ReadBLP W+0x0000000000001b22."

Recommendations For IrfanView version 4.50, avoid using the software to open crafted .dds files until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of .dds file format support in IrfanView to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-15769

Affected Products

Irfanview

References · 3

• 🔥❌ https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-15769 · Exploit, Deleted
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15769 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15769 · Vendor Advisory