What is CVE-2022-36947?

CVE-2022-36947 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Faststone Image Viewer, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-08-18.

How severe is CVE-2022-36947?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Faststone Image Viewer

CVE-2022-36947

Unsafe Parsing of a PNG tRNS chunk in FastStone Image Viewer through 7.5 results in a stack buffer overflow.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.021 (80.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Faststone Image_viewer
Microsoft Windows
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (Product, x_refsource_MISC, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-36947?: CVE-2022-36947 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Faststone Image Viewer, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-08-18.
How severe is CVE-2022-36947?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.