CVE-2015-8872
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Description
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."
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html
- https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12
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