CVE-2015-8872

MediumCVSS 6.2/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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."

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 6.2/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jun 3, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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