Secunia Research: IrfanView Palette File Importing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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                 Secunia Research 16/10/2007

• IrfanView Palette File Importing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Vendor's Description of Software…3
Description of Vulnerability…4
Solution…5
Time Table…6
Credits…7
References…8
About Secunia…9
Verification…10

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1) Affected Software

IrfanView 3.99 and 4.00

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE
(for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/
XP/2003/Vista. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful
for professionals.".

Product Link:
http://www.irfanview.com/

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4) Description of Vulnerability

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in IrfanView, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when importing
palette (.pal) files. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow by tricking a user into importing a specially crafted
palette (.pal) file.

Successful exploitation allows the execution of arbitrary code.

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5) Solution

Update to version 4.10.
http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

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6) Time Table

28/08/2007 - Vendor notified.
28/08/2007 - Vendor response.
16/10/2007 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Stefan Cornelius, Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2007-4343 for the vulnerability.

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-71/

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