{"id":"CVE-2015-8872","details":"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.\"","modified":"2026-02-04T02:31:57.336644Z","published":"2016-06-03T14:59:00Z","related":["MGASA-2016-0184","SUSE-SU-2016:2145-1","SUSE-SU-2016:2146-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/44-dosfstools-fsck.vfat-Several-invalid-memory-accesses.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/12"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/commit/07908124838afcc99c577d1d3e84cef2dbd39cb7"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/releases/tag/v4.0"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00001.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00014.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90311"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00028.html"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}