CVE-2016-10722

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.6%

Critical (9.8) in partclone project partclone. EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2018-05-02
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

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
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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