CVE-2017-6596: Partclone Project Partclone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Partclone Project Partclone: version 0.2.89 only

Published 2017-03-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.