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CVE-2015-8872

Published: Jun 03, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8872
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/189.html

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

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical12.04 (including)12.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical14.04 (including)14.04 (including)
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical15.10 (including)15.10 (including)
Ubuntu_linuxCanonical16.04 (including)16.04 (including)
DosfstoolsUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
DosfstoolsUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
DosfstoolsUbuntuprecise*
DosfstoolsUbuntutrusty*
DosfstoolsUbuntutrusty/esm*
DosfstoolsUbuntuupstream*
DosfstoolsUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
DosfstoolsUbuntuvivid/ubuntu-core*
DosfstoolsUbuntuwily*
DosfstoolsUbuntuxenial*

References

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