CVE-2017-6078 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can crash the FastStone MaxView application by tricking a user into opening a malformed BMP image file.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-6078?
CVE-2017-6078 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
FastStone MaxView 3.0 and 3.1 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed BMP image with a crafted biSize field in the BITMAPINFOHEADER section.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6078?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Faststone Maxview.
How do I fix CVE-2017-6078?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-6078 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-6078 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6078 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gqp5-8xh5-jpc9.