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CVE-2016-10722

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

partclone.fat in Partclone before 0.2.88 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the FAT superblock, related to the mark_reserved_sectors function. An attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application.

Affected products

• Partclone Project Partclone: before 0.2.88 — fixed in 0.2.88

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Partclone Project Partclone 0.2.88. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://david.gnedt.at/blog/2016/11/14/advisory-partclone-fat-bitmap-heap-overflow/
• https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/71
• https://david.gnedt.at/blog/2016/11/14/advisory-partclone-fat-bitmap-heap-overflow/
• https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/71

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