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Fedora 24 : dosfstools (2016-f695b1a747)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92209

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update fixing off-by-2 error leading to corruption in FAT12 ( CVE-2015-8872) and heap-buffer-overflows in read_fat() and get_fat() functions (CVE-2016-4804).

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Solution

Update the affected dosfstools package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-f695b1a747

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92209

File Name: fedora_2016-f695b1a747.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:dosfstools, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/3/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8872, CVE-2016-4804