The set_fat function in fat.c in dosfstools before 4.0 might allow attackers to corrupt a FAT12 filesystem or cause a denial of service (invalid memory read and crash) by writing an odd number of clusters to the third to last entry on a FAT12 filesystem, which triggers an "off-by-two error."
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References | () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html - | |
References | () http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html - | |
References | () http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90311 - | |
References | () http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1 - | |
References | () https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html - Vendor Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/07908124838afcc99c577d1d3e84cef2dbd39cb7 - | |
References | () https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12 - Vendor Advisory | |
References | () https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/tag/v4.0 - Patch | |
References | () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00028.html - |
Information
Published : 2016-06-03 14:59
Updated : 2024-11-21 02:39
NVD link : CVE-2015-8872
Mitre link : CVE-2015-8872
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2015-8872
JSON object : View
Products Affected
dosfstools_project
- dosfstools
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
opensuse
- opensuse
- leap
CWE
CWE-189
Numeric Errors