[Secure-testing-team] Bug#857966: partclone: CVE-2017-6596

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: partclone
Version: 0.2.73-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security
Forwarded: https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/91

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for partclone.

CVE-2017-6596[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6596
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6596
[1] https://github.com/Thomas-Tsai/partclone/issues/91
[2] https://github.com/insidej/Partclone_HeapOverFlow/blob/master/README.md

Regards,
Salvatore