CVE-2015-8872 (GCVE-0-2015-8872)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
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."
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2016-05-08 00:00
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