# CVE-2016-10722: partclone.fat in Partclone before 0.2.88 is prone to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of the FAT su

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-05-02 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## 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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