Upstream information

CVE-2017-6596 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 4.3
Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1028904 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2017:0820-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • partclone >= 0.3.17-3.4
  • partclone-lang >= 0.3.17-3.4
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11149

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Mar 10 13:15:29 2017
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov 1 20:32:29 2025