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CVE-2012-0897
Stack-based buffer overflow in the JPEG2000 plugin in IrfanView PlugIns before 4.33 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via…
Medium6.8EPSS 52.2%
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- mitre
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the JPEG2000 plugin in IrfanView PlugIns before 4.33 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG2000 (JP2) file with a crafted Quantization Default (QCD) marker segment.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 52.2% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 1032529 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 47360 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51426 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 78333 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1032530 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.irfanview.com/history_old.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- irfanview-qcd-bo(72398) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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