National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0197
Original release date:04/09/2009
Last revised:04/10/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Integer overflow in the FORMATS Plugin before 4.23 for IrfanView allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large XPM file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: irfanview-formatsplugin-xpm-bo(49717)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-0953
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 34402
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090407 Secunia Research: IrfanView Formats Plug-in XPM Parsing Integer Overflow
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 53323
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-20/
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34525
Type: Advisory