CVE-2016-4804

MEDIUM

dosfstools < 4.0 - Denial of Service via Crafted Filesystem

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/25
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/26
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90311
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00028.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.2
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (7)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
dosfstools_project/dosfstools < 3.0.28
opensuse/leap 42.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
Published Jun 03, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026