CVE-2016-4804 (GCVE-0-2016-4804)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-06-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:39
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Summary
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-08 00:00
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