CVE-2015-8872 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8872?

CVE-2015-8872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8872?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Dosfstools Project Dosfstools, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8872?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-8872 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8872 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8872, GHSA-2vww-49j7-chwm, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8872.