CVE-2017-6010 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2017-6010?

CVE-2017-6010 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 16 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-6010?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Icoutils Project Icoutils, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Eus and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2017-6010?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-6010 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-6010 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6010, GHSA-7w3j-wxh4-94xw, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6010.