CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8872

Published: Jun 03, 2016 | Modified: May 30, 2020
CVSS 3.x
6.2
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.4 MODERATE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 12.04 (including) 12.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 14.04 (including) 14.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 15.10 (including) 15.10 (including)
Ubuntu_linux Canonical 16.04 (including) 16.04 (including)
Dosfstools Ubuntu precise *
Dosfstools Ubuntu trusty *
Dosfstools Ubuntu upstream *
Dosfstools Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Dosfstools Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Dosfstools Ubuntu wily *
Dosfstools Ubuntu xenial *

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