CVE-2016-4804

2016-05-1900:00:00

ubuntu.com

2.1 Low

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

6.2 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

62.1%

JSON

The read_boot 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) read_fat function or an
out-of-bounds heap read in (2) get_fat function.

Bugs

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu12.04noarchdosfstools< 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchdosfstools< 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchdosfstools< 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchdosfstools< 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	dosfstools	< 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	dosfstools	< 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	15.10	noarch	dosfstools	< 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	dosfstools	< 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1	UNKNOWN