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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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