CVE-2017-15801

HIGH

XnView Classic 2.43 - Denial of Service via Crafted DLL Icon Rendering

Title source: llm

Description

XnView Classic for Windows Version 2.43 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dll file that is mishandled during an attempt to render the DLL icon, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at ntdll_77310000!LdrpResSearchResourceInsideDirectory+0x000000000000029e."

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-15801

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0019

EPSS Percentile 40.4%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (1)

xnview/xnview 2.43

Published Oct 22, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026