DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4804

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-4804
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4804.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4804
Upstream
Published
2016-06-03T14:59:06Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:18Z
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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / dosfstools

Package

Name
dosfstools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / dosfstools

Package

Name
dosfstools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / dosfstools

Package

Name
dosfstools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / dosfstools

Package

Name
dosfstools
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/dosfstools?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}