Critical severity · published May 2, 2018
CVE-2016-10722
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…
9.8
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PA
Partclone · Partclone Project
before 0.2.88 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10722
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10722
Exploit
https://david.gnedt.at/blog/2016/11/14/advisory-partclone-fat-bitmap-heap-overflow/
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/71
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