Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-4804

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The readboot 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-bas...

RHEL 5 : dosfstools (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - dosfstools: Heap-buffer-overflows in readfat and getfat functions CVE-2016-4804 - The setfat function in...

RHEL 6 : dosfstools (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - dosfstools: Heap-buffer-overflows in readfat and getfat functions CVE-2016-4804 - The setfat function in...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2146-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2016:2145-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for dosfstools (EulerOS-SA-2019-1961)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dosfstools (SUSE-SU-2016:2145-1)

dosfstools was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-8872: The setfat function in fat.c in dosfstools might have allowed attackers to corrupt a FAT12 filesystem or cause a denial of service invalid memory read and crash by writing an odd number of...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : dosfstools (SUSE-SU-2016:2146-1)

dosfstools was updated to fix two security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2015-8872: The setfat function in fat.c in dosfstools might have allowed attackers to corrupt a FAT12 filesystem or cause a denial of service invalid memory read and crash by writing an odd number of...

Fedora 23 : dosfstools (2016-e2d635cbf8)

This is an update fixing off-by-2 error leading to corruption in FAT12 CVE-2015-8872 and heap-buffer-overflows in readfat and getfat functions CVE-2016-4804. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable ha...

CVE-2016-4804

CVE-2016-4804 (dosfstools) affects dosfstools prior to 4.0. The vulnerability is in read_boot (boot.c) and can cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted filesystem, due to a heap-based buffer overflow in read_fat or an out-of-bounds heap read in get_fat. Affected component: dosfstools read_...

CVE-2016-4804

The readboot 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 readfat function or an out-of-bounds heap read in 2 getfat function...