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...

CVE-2016-4804: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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...