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>> IrfanView Animated Cursor Handling Client-Side Command Execution Vulnerability
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Title : IrfanView Animated Cursor Handling Client-Side Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1210
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1867
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-03
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A vulnerability has been identified in IrfanView, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is due to a buffer overflow error when rendering a malformed animated cursor (.ANI), which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted ANI file.
Affected Products
IrfanView version 3.99 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to version 4.00 :
http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1210
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Marsu
ChangeLog
2007-04-03 : Initial release
2007-05-01 : Updated Solution
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