Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package icoutils  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-ICOUTILS-655704
  • published16 Feb 2017
  • disclosed16 Feb 2017

Introduced: 16 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-6011  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icoutils package and not the icoutils package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.