CVE-2017-8785

Published: Jul 5, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

7.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

FastStone Image Viewer 6.2 has a "Data from Faulting Address may be used as a return value" issue. This issue can be triggered by a malformed JPEG 2000 file that is mishandled by FSViewer.exe. Attackers could exploit this issue for DoS (Access Violation) or possibly unspecified other impact.

Affected (1)

Products: Faststone: Image Viewer

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Faststone Image Viewer	Version 6.2

Related CWEs

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (2)

https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8785

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-8785

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Third Party Advisory

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