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CVE-2017-6596

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• Partclone Project Partclone: 0.2.89

References

• https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.md

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