CVE-2017-6009 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. A buffer overflow was observed in the \decode_ne_resource_id\ function in the \restable.c\ source file. This is happening because the \len\ parameter for memcpy is not checked for size and thus becomes a negative integer in the process resulting in a failed memcpy. This affects wrestool.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3807 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96292 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854050 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-12

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5