CVE-2017-6011

medium
Published 2017-02-16 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. An out-of-bounds read leading to a buffer overflow was observed in the "simple_vec" function in the "extract.c" source file. This affects icotool.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.31.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.31.2-1
debian debianforkyfixed0.31.2-1
debian debiansidfixed0.31.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.31.2-1
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
icoutils_projecticoutils0.31.1

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.