CVE-2017-5208
Integer overflow in the wrestool program in icoutils before 0.31.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted executable, which triggers a denial of service
02 Description
Integer overflow in the wrestool program in icoutils before 0.31.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted executable, which triggers a denial of service
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.59% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-08-22 18:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-08
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190Integer Overflow or WraparoundBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 8038dcddc77341505bb84537a491c656fc18e6ff76eb30a3a705727cc784964d
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-12https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-12
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170108 Re: CVE Request: icoutils: exploitable crash in wrestool programmhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/08/5
- www.debian.orgDSA-3756http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3756
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0837http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html
- www.securityfocus.com95315http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95315
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411251
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.1-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.0-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.0-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- icoutils Fixed in 0.31.0-3ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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