IrfanView 4.54 memory corruption

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in IrfanView 4.54. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-13905. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in IrfanView 4.54 (Image Processing Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input 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 4.54 allows a user-mode write access violation starting at FORMATS!GetPlugInInfo+0x0000000000038ed4.

The weakness was published 06/10/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-13905 since 06/07/2020. 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 entry is available at VDB-156501. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Image Processing Software

Name

• IrfanView

Version

• 4.54

License

• free

Website

• Product: https://www.irfanview.com/

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