Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-6313

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-6313 describes an integer underflow vulnerability in the gdk-pixbuf library, specifically within the load_resources function when processing ICO files. This flaw allows an attacker to trigger a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and program crash) by providing a specially crafted image entry size. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), exploitation requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but does not require privileges (PR:N). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.36.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gdk-pixbuf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0193 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 11,621 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

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gdk-pixbuf2
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3Fixed in: mingw-virt-viewer

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-6313Moderate

gdk-pixbuf: Integer underflow in io-icns.c

Feb 21, 2017

References

mov.sx / 2017/02/21/bug-hunting-gdk-pixbuf.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.gnome.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00025.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SJF5ARFOX4BFUK6YCBKGAKBQYECO3AI2
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSAZ6UCKKXC5VOWXGWQHOX2ZBLLATIOT
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201709-08
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/21/4
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/02/26/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96779
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry