How widely exploitable is this vulnerability in real-world deployments?

Exploitability depends on how an application uses iccDEV. If it automatically processes untrusted ICC profiles or images (e.g., web services, print servers, batch image processors), the attack surface is broad. In strictly controlled environments where only trusted profiles are allowed, the practical risk is lower but still present if profiles can be replaced or tampered with.

What level of access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker generally needs the ability to supply or influence ICC profile data that the vulnerable code will parse. This might be as simple as uploading or opening an image with an embedded profile, submitting a document, or placing a file into a directory or queue that the system processes.

What is the safest general fix pattern for this type of bug?

The core fix is to enforce robust input validation and strict bounds checking before allocating or writing to buffers. All size and count fields parsed from binary data should be validated against conservative maximums, checked for arithmetic overflow, and cross-validated against the overall structure. Unsafe direct use of untrusted sizes in allocations or copies should be refactored into defensive helper routines.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

Heap Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) in iccDEV CIccTagNamedColor2::SetSize() Color Profile Handling

CVE-2026-24406

Published:

Jan 23, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

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CRITICAL RISK

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Account Takeover / Loss of Account Control

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CWE-77;CWE-78

HIGH RISK

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Remote Code Execution on the Server Host

February 17, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Memory Corruption / Heap Buffer Overflow

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-122

Impact:

Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Memory Corruption / Heap Buffer Overflow

CWE:

CWE-20;CWE-122

Impact:

Arbitrary Code Execution and Denial of Service

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.8)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Heap Buffer Overflow (CWE-122) in iccDEV CIccTagNamedColor2::SetSize() Color Profile Handling

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

Recent Vulnerabilities

CRITICAL RISK

CRITICAL

(9.8)

Missing Authentication for Forgot-Password Email Change API (CWE-306)

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

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