FKIE_CVE-2017-6596

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-03-10 10:59 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.mdThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.mdThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
partclone_project partclone 0.2.89
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  "id": "CVE-2017-6596",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-20T01:37:25.860",
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