Medium severity · published Feb 16, 2017
CVE-2017-6010
An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1
5.5
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. A buffer overflow was observed in the "extract_icons" function in the "extract.c" source file. This issue can be triggered by processing a corrupted ico file and will result in an icotool crash.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
8.0; 9.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4; 7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Eus · Redhat
7.3; 7.4; 7.5; 7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Tus · Redhat
7.3; 7.6 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
IC
Icoutils · Icoutils Project
0.31.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6010
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6010
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3807
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96288
Exploit
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854054
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-12
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