CVE-2013-6932

high
Published 2013-12-28 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.6

Description

Buffer overflow in IrfanView before 4.37, when a multibyte-character directory name is used, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that is incorrectly handled by the Thumbnail tooltips feature in the Thumbnails window.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
irfanviewirfanview{"endIncluding":"4.36"}
irfanviewirfanview4.00
irfanviewirfanview4.10
irfanviewirfanview4.20
irfanviewirfanview4.23
irfanviewirfanview4.25
irfanviewirfanview4.27
irfanviewirfanview4.28
irfanviewirfanview4.30
irfanviewirfanview4.32
irfanviewirfanview4.33
irfanviewirfanview4.35

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.