PT-2024-37881 · Irfan Skiljan · Irfanview

Published 2024-07-26 · Updated 2024-12-18 · CVE-2024-6816

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

Memory Corruption

Heap Based Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

CWE-122

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-6816

ZDI-24-968

Affected Products

Irfanview

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6816 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6816 · Vendor Advisory
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-968 · Security Note, Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/104782 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1860055228541796808 · Twitter Post