CVE-2015-8872
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8872
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8872.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8872
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-06-03T14:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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."
- References
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- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/07908124838afcc99c577d1d3e84cef2dbd39cb7
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/tag/v4.0
- 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