CVE-2026-89085
A flaw was found in parted
- Risk score
- 41/100
- CVSS
- 6.6 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.2%
- Published
- 16 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- A flaw was found in parted. A heap-based buffer overflow can occur when processing a specially crafted FAT32 filesystem due to an integer calculation error during buffer allocation. A local attacker could exploit this by enticing a user or automated service to open a malicious filesystem image, resulting in an applica…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.6 medium
References
Original description
A flaw was found in parted. A heap-based buffer overflow can occur when processing a specially crafted FAT32 filesystem due to an integer calculation error during buffer allocation. A local attacker could exploit this by enticing a user or automated service to open a malicious filesystem image, resulting in an application crash leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) or potential memory corruption.
Last activity 16 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.