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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2021-29361
CVE-2021-29361:
IrfanView vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2021-29361 is a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in IrfanView version 4.57, specifically in the FORMATS!Read_Utah_RLE+0x340 function. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code through specially crafted files (GitHub Research, NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is a buffer overflow condition that occurs in the FORMATS!Read_Utah_RLE+0x340 function when processing RLE (Run-Length Encoding) files in IrfanView 4.57. This vulnerability could potentially be triggered when processing specially crafted RLE files (NVD).
Impact
The successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the affected system when processing maliciously crafted files (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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