What is CVE-2017-6011?

CVE-2017-6011 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Icoutils Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-16.

How severe is CVE-2017-6011?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-6011 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Out-of-bounds Read in Icoutils Project

CVE-2017-6011

An issue was discovered in icoutils 0.31.1. An out-of-bounds read leading to a buffer overflow was observed in the "simple_vec" function in the "extract.c" source file. This affects icotool.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-02-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (74.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 74th percentile — 74.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Icoutils Project — versions 0.31.1
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 7.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 7.3, 7.4, 7.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus — versions 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus — versions 7.3, 7.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

Public proof-of-concept exploits

vulsio/goval-dictionary

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-12 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96267 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit, Mailing List, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0837.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3807 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6011?: CVE-2017-6011 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Icoutils Project, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-02-16.
How severe is CVE-2017-6011?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-6011 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.