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CVE-2015-8872

Publication date 31 December 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.2 · Medium

Score breakdown

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."

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dosfstools 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1
15.10 wily
Fixed 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
dosfstools

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.2 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H