CVE-2008-5870 — FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed BMP image with large width and height values, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-1942

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FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed BMP image with large width and height values, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-1942

Published Jan 8, 2009

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.10%

Description

FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed BMP image with large width and height values, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-1942.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.10% 0.02095

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02095

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.10% (0.02095)	80.97th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.10% (0.02095)	79.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 15, 2025	4.08% (0.04076)	88.16th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.90% (0.01897)	82.01th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.14% (0.00140)	51.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.17% (0.00167)	53.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 19, 2023	0.17% (0.00173)	53.75th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00164)	51.23th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.96% (0.01963)	78.58th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.96% (0.01963)	76.70th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.96% (0.01963)	55.84th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

References (3)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4878
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497061/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6673
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4878		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497061/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6673		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jan 8, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jan 8, 2009

Link CVE-2008-5870

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-5870

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-5870