USN-2986-1

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    USN-2986-1

    Published: 31 May 2016Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: dosfstools vulnerabilities

    Details: Hanno Böck discovered that dosfstools incorrectly handled certain malformed filesystems. A local attacker could use this issue to cause dosfstools to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2986-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8872, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4804

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: dosfstools

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    3.0.16-2ubuntu2
    3.0.24-1
    3.0.25-1
    3.0.26-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High