CVE-2017-6596

partclone.chkimg in partclone 0.2.89 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header. An attacker may be able to launch a 'Denial of Service attack' in the context of the user running the affected application.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-03-10

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Partclone (Partclone Project)

References

• https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.md