CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8872

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2016-06-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-06-03
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

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."

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • opensuse leap 42.1 • opensuse opensuse 13.2 • dosfstools project dosfstools (<= 3.0.28)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References