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CVE-2017-6010

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6010 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in icoutils 0.31.1, specifically within the "extract_icons" function, affecting products like Debian and Red Hat. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered by processing a crafted ICO file, leading to a denial of service through an icotool crash. While the attack requires local access and user interaction (opening a malicious file), there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.31.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:icoutils_project:icoutils:0.31.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0154 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 5,757 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: icoutils-0:0.31.3-1.el7_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6010Moderate

icoutils: Buffer overflow in the extract_icons function

Feb 3, 2017

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingMailing ListVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201801-12
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3807
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96288
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry