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CVE-2015-8872
medium
Description
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
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00028.html
https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/tag/v4.0
https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12
https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/07908124838afcc99c577d1d3e84cef2dbd39cb7
https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90311
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html