CVE-2017-15769 — IrfanView 4.50 - 64bit allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dds file, related to "Read Access Violation starting at FORMATS!ReadBLP_W+0x0000000000001b22."

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HIGH

IrfanView 4.50 - 64bit allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dds file, related to "Read Access Violation starting at FORMATS!ReadBLP_W+0x0000000000001b22."

Published Oct 22, 2017

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.99%

Description

IrfanView 4.50 - 64bit allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dds file, related to "Read Access Violation starting at FORMATS!ReadBLP_W+0x0000000000001b22."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.99% 0.00990

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

EPSS probability 0.00990

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.99% (0.00990)	61.16th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Aug 23, 2026	1.56% (0.01560)	72.90th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jul 20, 2024	0.06% (0.00062)	26.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 14, 2024	0.06% (0.00063)	27.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.06% (0.00063)	25.19th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.52% (0.00518)	11.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.52% (0.00518)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (1)

https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-15769
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/wlinzi/security_advisories/tree/master/CVE-2017-15769		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Oct 22, 2017

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Oct 21, 2017

Link CVE-2017-15769

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-15769

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2017-15769