CVE-2011-5233

medium

Published 2012-10-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in IrfanView before 4.32 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted "Rows Per Strip" and "Samples Per Pixel" values in a TIFF image file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18257 dos windows verified

Francis Provencher · 2011-12-20

IrfanView - '.tiff' Image Processing Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
irfanview	irfanview	`{"endIncluding":"4.30"}`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.90`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.91`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.92`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.95`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.97`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.98`
irfanview	irfanview	`3.99`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.00`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.10`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.20`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.23`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.25`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.27`
irfanview	irfanview	`4.28`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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