Secunia Research: IrfanView Formats Plug-in XPM Parsing Integer Overflow
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Secunia Research 07/04/2009
- IrfanView Formats Plug-in XPM Parsing Integer Overflow -
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Table of Contents
Affected Software....................................................1
Severity.............................................................2
Vendor's Description of Software.....................................3
Description of Vulnerability.........................................4
Solution.............................................................5
Time Table...........................................................6
Credits..............................................................7
References...........................................................8
About Secunia........................................................9
Verification........................................................10
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1) Affected Software
* IrfanView Formats Plug-in 4.22
NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.
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2) Severity
Rating: Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
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3) Vendor's Description of Software
"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE
(for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.".
Product Link: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
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4) Description of Vulnerability
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in IrfanView's
Formats plug-in, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow when processing
XPM files with certain dimensions. This can be exploited to cause a
heap-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a
specially crafted XPM file.
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5) Solution
Update to version 4.23.
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6) Time Table
31/03/2009 - Vendor notified.
01/04/2009 - Vendor response.
06/04/2009 - Vendor issues fixed version.
07/04/2009 - Public disclosure.
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7) Credits
Discovered by Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research.
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8) References
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2009-0197 for the vulnerability.
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10) Verification
Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-20/
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