CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2017-6596
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.79%
Original NVD 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.