Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4804

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-03 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:39:26
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The read_boot 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) read_fat function or an out-of-bounds heap read in (2) get_fat function.