Out-of-Bounds Affecting icoutils package, versions <0.31.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-ICOUTILS-305963
  • published16 Feb 2017
  • disclosed16 Feb 2017

Introduced: 16 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-6010  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 icoutils to version 0.31.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icoutils package and not the icoutils package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.