Security Advisory
CVE-2016-4804
6.2
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
June 3, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory