CVE-2016-4804
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 3, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 14, 2016
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1461vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/25
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html
- USN-2986-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/26
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2233vendor-advisory
- 90311vdb-entry
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/e8eff147e9da1185f9afd5b25948153a3b97cf52
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200530 [SECURITY] [DLA 2224-1] dosfstools security updatemailing-list
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