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CVE-2016-10722

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 2, 2018 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPartclone

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Partclone· Partclone Project
95%
v < 0.2.88
Affected range stops below 0.2.88, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://david.gnedt.at/blog/2016/11/14/advisory-partclone-fat-bitmap-heap-overflow/
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/71

CVSS

9.8CRITICAL[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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