CVE-2009-0197

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the FORMATS Plugin before 4.23 for IrfanView allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large XPM file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

IrfanView Formats: through 4.22; 4.00, 4.10, 4.20

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/34525
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-20/
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
http://www.osvdb.org/53323
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502516/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34402
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0953
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49717
http://secunia.com/advisories/34525
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2009-20/
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
http://www.osvdb.org/53323

Get alerted when CVE-2009-0197 or the next vulnerability affects your stack