CVE-2016-10721 - partclone.restore in Partclone 0.2.87 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header

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CRITICAL

partclone.restore in Partclone 0.2.87 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header

Published May 2, 2018

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 2.15%

Description

partclone.restore in Partclone 0.2.87 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the partclone image header. An attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (1)

https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/82
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https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/82		x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 2, 2018

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved May 2, 2018

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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