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CVE-2015-8872
CVE-2015-8872
PUBLISHED
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."
EPSS 0.09% · 25.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.09%
25.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:14.04:LTS | dosfstools | 0, 3.0.16-2ubuntu2, 3.0.24-1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | dosfstools | 0, 3.0.28-1, 3.0.28-2 |
Exploit Intelligence
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1461 (circl)
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/tag/v4.0 (circl)
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12 (circl)
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html (circl)
- USN-2986-1 (circl)
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/07908124838afcc99c577d1d3e84cef2dbd39cb7 (circl)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:2233 (circl)
- 90311 (circl)
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200530 [SECURITY] [DLA 2224-1] dosfstools security update (circl)
Timeline
- Dec 31, 2015 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 2, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8872 third-party-advisory
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2986-1 vendor-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8872 third-party-advisory