CVE-2017-15801: Xnview

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XnView Classic for Windows Version 2.43 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .dll file that is mishandled during an attempt to render the DLL icon, related to "Data from Faulting Address controls Branch Selection starting at ntdll_77310000!LdrpResSearchResourceInsideDirectory+0x000000000000029e."

Affected products

• Xnview Xnview: version 2.43 only

Published 2017-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.