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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3756-1 icoutils -- security update

Date Reported:

09 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

icoutils

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-5208.

More information:

Choongwoo Han discovered that a programming error in the wrestool tool of the icoutils suite allows denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed binary is parsed.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.31.0-2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.31.0-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your icoutils packages.