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."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-06-03T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:22.096Z

Reserved: 2016-05-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8872

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-06-03T14:59:00.123

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:39:22.057

Link: CVE-2015-8872

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-05-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8872 - Bugzilla