Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8872

6.2
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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."
Published Date June 3, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory