CVE-2016-4804
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4804
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4804.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4804
- Related
- Published
- 2016-06-03T14:59:06Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-12T13:27:13.041600Z
- Downstream
- Severity
-
- 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The readboot 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) readfat function or an out-of-bounds heap read in (2) get_fat function.
- References
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- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/25
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/26
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/e8eff147e9da1185f9afd5b25948153a3b97cf52
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90311
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00028.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4804
Affected packages
Debian:11 / dosfstools
Package
- Name
- dosfstools
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source
Debian:12 / dosfstools
Package
- Name
- dosfstools
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source
Debian:13 / dosfstools
Package
- Name
- dosfstools
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source