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CVE-2017-5332

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5332 describes a denial-of-service and potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in icoutils versions prior to 0.31.1, specifically within the wrestool/extract.c component. This flaw, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat, stems from improper handling of unallocated memory when processing crafted executables. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires local user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), allowing an attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.31.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:icoutils_project:icoutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.11%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0211 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 11,615 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
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-2017-5332Moderate

icoutils: Access to unallocated memory possible in extract.c

Jan 8, 2017

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-01/msg00024.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-01/msg00025.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-01/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
git.savannah.gnu.org / cgit/icoutils.git/commit
PatchThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3765
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/01/11/3
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95380
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3178-1
Third Party Advisory