PT-2018-4888 · Partclone · Partclone

David Gnedt · Published 2018-05-02 · Updated 2018-06-06 · CVE-2016-10721

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Partclone version 0.2.87

Description The issue is due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header in the partclone.restore function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application.

Recommendations For Partclone version 0.2.87, 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-2016-10721

Affected Products

Partclone

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10721 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10721 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10721 · Security Note
• https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/82 · Note