CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-4804

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-119

Description

The read_boot function in boot.c in dosfstools before 4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted filesystem, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the (1) read_fat function or an out-of-bounds heap read in (2) get_fat function.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References