[NT] IrfanView Palette File Importing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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IrfanView Palette File Importing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

<http://www.irfanview.com/> 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.". Secunia Research has discovered a
vulnerability in IrfanView, which can be exploited by malicious people to
compromise a user's system.

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* IrfanView version 3.99
* IrfanView version 4.00

Immune Systems:
* IrfanView version 4.10

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.

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

CVE Information:
<http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4343>
CVE-2007-4343


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by Secunia Research.
The original article can be found at:
<http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-71/>
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-71/



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