A vulnerability was found in IrfanView 4.44 on 32-bit (Image Processing Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component PDF Plugin. The manipulation as part of a PDF File leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IrfanView version 4.44 (32bit) with PDF plugin version 4.43 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .pdf file, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at PDF!xmlGetGlobalState+0x0000000000057b76."

The bug was discovered 10/12/2017. The weakness was published 10/11/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-15245 since 10/11/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Similar entries are available at 107784, 107783, 107782 and 107781.

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• Image Processing Software

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• IrfanView

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• 4.44

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• free

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