CVE-2016-4804

Publication date 19 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.2 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dosfstools 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1
15.10 wily
Fixed 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3

Patch details

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Package Patch details
dosfstools

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.2 · Medium

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-2986-1
    • dosfstools vulnerabilities
    • 31 May 2016

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