CVE-2016-4804

MediumCVSS 6.2/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

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-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

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

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