CVSS 3.0
6.2 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2015-8872
Medium (6.2). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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."
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- dosfstools_project:dosfstools
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:opensuse