CVE-2016-4804

Publication date

2016-06-03 14:00:00

Family

mitre

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.