CVE-2017-6596

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2017-6596 · Published 10/03/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-6596 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting partclone (partclone project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.79%, higher than 56.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
partclone partclone_project	`= 0.2.89`	No fix yet

Description

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

insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow · Third Party Advisory

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