CVE-2017-6596

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 10, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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