PT-2017-17176 · Partclone · Partclone

Published 2017-03-10 · Updated 2017-03-13 · CVE-2017-6596

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions partclone version 0.2.89

Description The issue is due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header in partclone.chkimg, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This could allow an attacker to launch a Denial of Service attack in the context of the user running the affected application.

Recommendations For partclone version 0.2.89, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6596

DLA-923-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11149-1

Affected Products

Partclone

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6596 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6596 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6596 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.md · Note