CVE-2017-6011: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Icoutils Project Icoutils: version 0.31.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2017-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.