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Debian: CVE-2017-6010: icoutils -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-6010: icoutils -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/16/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/13/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-icoutils

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