CVE-2007-1948

high

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.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-1942

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1284

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464726/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2558

http://osvdb.org/41554

http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/04/several-windows-image-viewers.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-04-11

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05999