VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0897

medium
Published 2012-01-20 · 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
7.8

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the JPEG2000 plugin in IrfanView PlugIns before 4.33 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG2000 (JP2) file with a crafted Quantization Default (QCD) marker segment.

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-19519 local windows verified
Metasploit · 2012-07-01

IrfanView JPEG2000 4.3.2.0 - jp2 Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/irfanview_jpeg2000_bof rank 300
Irfanview JPEG2000 jp2 Stack Buffer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
irfanviewirfanview{"endIncluding":"4.32"}
irfanviewirfanview1.70
irfanviewirfanview1.75
irfanviewirfanview1.80
irfanviewirfanview1.85
irfanviewirfanview1.90
irfanviewirfanview1.95
irfanviewirfanview1.97
irfanviewirfanview1.98
irfanviewirfanview1.98a
irfanviewirfanview1.99
irfanviewirfanview2.00
irfanviewirfanview2.05
irfanviewirfanview2.07
irfanviewirfanview2.10
irfanviewirfanview2.12
irfanviewirfanview2.15
irfanviewirfanview2.17
irfanviewirfanview2.18
irfanviewirfanview2.20
irfanviewirfanview2.22
irfanviewirfanview2.25
irfanviewirfanview2.27
irfanviewirfanview2.30
irfanviewirfanview2.32
irfanviewirfanview2.35
irfanviewirfanview2.37
irfanviewirfanview2.40
irfanviewirfanview2.50
irfanviewirfanview2.52
irfanviewirfanview2.55
irfanviewirfanview2.60
irfanviewirfanview2.62
irfanviewirfanview2.63
irfanviewirfanview2.65
irfanviewirfanview2.66
irfanviewirfanview2.68
irfanviewirfanview2.80
irfanviewirfanview2.82
irfanviewirfanview2.83
irfanviewirfanview2.85
irfanviewirfanview2.90
irfanviewirfanview2.92
irfanviewirfanview2.95
irfanviewirfanview2.97
irfanviewirfanview2.98
irfanviewirfanview3.00
irfanviewirfanview3.0.7
irfanviewirfanview3.02
irfanviewirfanview3.05
irfanviewirfanview3.07
irfanviewirfanview3.10
irfanviewirfanview3.12
irfanviewirfanview3.15
irfanviewirfanview3.17
irfanviewirfanview3.20
irfanviewirfanview3.21
irfanviewirfanview3.25
irfanviewirfanview3.30
irfanviewirfanview3.33
irfanviewirfanview3.35
irfanviewirfanview3.36
irfanviewirfanview3.50
irfanviewirfanview3.51
irfanviewirfanview3.60
irfanviewirfanview3.61
irfanviewirfanview3.70
irfanviewirfanview3.75
irfanviewirfanview3.80
irfanviewirfanview3.85
irfanviewirfanview3.90
irfanviewirfanview3.91
irfanviewirfanview3.92
irfanviewirfanview3.95
irfanviewirfanview3.97
irfanviewirfanview3.98
irfanviewirfanview3.99
irfanviewirfanview4.00
irfanviewirfanview4.10
irfanviewirfanview4.20
irfanviewirfanview4.22
irfanviewirfanview4.23
irfanviewirfanview4.25
irfanviewirfanview4.27
irfanviewirfanview4.28
irfanviewirfanview4.30

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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