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.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Marsu
ChangeLog
2007-04-03 : Initial release
2007-05-01 : Updated Solution
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