A vulnerability has been found in XnView Classic 2.48 on Windows (Image Processing Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

XnView Classic 2.48 on Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, related to ntdll!RtlPrefixUnicodeString.

The bug was discovered 03/21/2019. The weakness was disclosed 03/24/2019. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-9967 since 03/23/2019. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/04/2023).

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 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 132144, 132143 and 132141 are pretty similar.

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• Image Processing Software

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• XnView Classic

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• 2.48

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• free

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