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.
Advisories
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-923-1 partclone security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15650 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:33:20.440Z

Reserved: 2017-03-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6596

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-10T10:59:00.423

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6596

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