CVE-2016-10722 Information

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

Reference

https://david.gnedt.at/blog/2016/11/14/advisory-partclone-fat-bitmap-heap-overflow/ https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/71

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8