CVE-2015-8872 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the set_fat function of dosfstools before version 4.0, affecting canonical and openSUSE distributions. An attacker could exploit an "off-by-two error" by writing an odd number of clusters to a FAT12 filesystem, leading to filesystem corruption or a denial of service via an invalid memory read and crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.2, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
15.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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