The vulnerability of the fsck.fat file system checking and recovery utility in the dosfstools package arises from the improper assignment of permissions to a critical resource. This allows an attacker to gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the fsck.fat file system checking and recovery utility in the dosfstools set is related to the improper assignment of permissions for a critical resource. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data...

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

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MGASA-2016-0184 Updated dosfstools packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated dosfstools package fixes security vulnerabilities: In dosfstools before 4.0, if the third to last entry was written on a FAT12 filesystem with an odd number of clusters, the second to last entry would be corrupted. This corruption may also lead to invalid memory accesses when the corrupte...

Updated dosfstools packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated dosfstools package fixes security vulnerabilities: In dosfstools before 4.0, if the third to last entry was written on a FAT12 filesystem with an odd number of clusters, the second to last entry would be corrupted. This corruption may also lead to invalid memory accesses when the corrupte...