Vulnerability CVE-2016-10722


Published: 2018-05-02   Modified: 2018-05-03

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.

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Partclone project -> Partclone 

 References:
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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