vulnerability
SUSE: CVE-2016-4804: SUSE Linux Security Advisory
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jun 3, 2016 | Jun 3, 2016 | Jun 20, 2021 |
Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 3, 2016
Added
Jun 3, 2016
Modified
Jun 20, 2021
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.
Solution
suse-upgrade-dosfstools
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