CVE-2017-5208

high

Published 2017-08-22 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Integer overflow in the wrestool program in icoutils before 0.31.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted executable, which triggers a denial of service (application crash) or the possibility of execution of arbitrary code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Red Hat Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.31.0-4`
sid	Fixed	`0.31.0-4`
forky	Fixed	`0.31.0-4`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.31.0-4`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.31.0-4`
8.0	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`0.31.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
icoutils_project	icoutils	`{"endExcluding":"0.31.1"}`	`0.31.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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