CVE-2007-1948

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-04-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in IrfanView 3.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via the (1) xoffset or (2) yoffset RLE command, or (3) large non-RLE encoded blocks in a crafted BMP image, as demonstrated by rle8of3.bmp and rle8of4.bmp.

Affected products

IrfanView: 3.99

References

http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/04/several-windows-image-viewers.html
http://osvdb.org/41554
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2558
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464726/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1284
http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/04/several-windows-image-viewers.html
http://osvdb.org/41554
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2558
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464726/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1284

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