A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in IrfanView 4.50 on 64-bit (Image Processing Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component BabaCAD4Image Plugin. The manipulation as part of a dwg 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 4.50 - 64bit with BabaCAD4Image plugin version 1.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dwg file, related to a "Read Access Violation starting at BabaCAD4Image!ShowPlugInOptions+0x000000000001e6b0."

The bug was discovered 10/21/2017. The weakness was disclosed 10/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-15764 since 10/21/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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

The entries 108366, 108365, 108364 and 108363 are pretty similar.

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• Image Processing Software

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• IrfanView

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• 4.50

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• free

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