PT-2024-37214 · Irfanview · Irfanview

Published 2024-06-12 · Updated 2024-11-22 · CVE-2024-5876

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 (affected versions not specified)

Description: This issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of IrfanView. User interaction is required to exploit this issue, where the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of PSP files, resulting from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute code in the context of the current process.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-122

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-5876

ZDI-24-669

Affected Products

Irfanview

References · 4

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-669 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5876 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5876 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1860055240038334818 · Twitter Post