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Fedora 26: icoutils Moderate Security Advisory for Buffer Overflows

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 26's icoutils security patch tackles various buffer overflow vulnerabilities, enhancing overall system safety through effective resolutions.
Security fix for CVE-2017-6009, CVE-2017-6010, CVE-2017-6011.

Summary

The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in

Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the

extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables or

libraries.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-6009, CVE-2017-6010, CVE-2017-6011.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1422908 - CVE-2017-6011 icoutils: Buffer overflow in the simple_vec function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422908 [ 2 ] Bug #1422907 - CVE-2017-6010 icoutils: Buffer overflow in the extract_icons function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422907 [ 3 ] Bug #1422906 - CVE-2017-6009 icoutils: Buffer overflow in the decode_ne_resource_id function https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422906

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade icoutils' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: icoutils
Product: Fedora 26
Version: 0.31.2
Release: 1.fc26
URL: http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/
Summary: Utility for extracting and converting Microsoft icon and cursor files

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