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Application: IrfanView FlashPix PlugIn Decompression Heap Overflow
Platforms: Windows
Secunia Number: SA48772
{PRL}: 2012-08
Author: Francis Provencher (Protek Research Lab's)
Website: http://www.protekresearchlab.com/
Twitter: @ProtekResearch
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1) Introduction
2) Timeline
3) Technical details
4) PoC
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1) Introduction
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IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files
and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic
file formats, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. The software was first released in 1996.
IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration.
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2) Timeline
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2012-04-06 - Vulnerability reported to secunia
2012-04-13 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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3) Technical details
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The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation when decompressing FlashPix images
and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted FPX file.
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4) The PoC
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https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/19960.fpx
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