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CVE-2017-6011

icoutils: Buffer overflow in the simple_vec function

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

8.1

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 3, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in icoutils, in the icotool program. An attacker could create a crafted ICO or CUR file that, when read by icotool, could result in memory corruption leading to a crash or potential code execution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow