Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title dosfstools vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2986-1 First vendor Publication 2016-05-31
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2016-05-31
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 15.10 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

dosfstools could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially crafted filesystem.

Software Description: - dosfstools: utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems

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.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
dosfstools 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 15.10:
dosfstools 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
dosfstools 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
dosfstools 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2986-1
CVE-2015-8872, CVE-2016-4804

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosfstools/3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosfstools/3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosfstools/3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosfstools/3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2986-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 4
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-09-06 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1045.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2145-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-09-02 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-2146-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-e2d635cbf8.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-f3262abda6.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-f695b1a747.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-02 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-671.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-01 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2986-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-06-04 00:34:36
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-03 21:36:13
  • Multiple Updates
2016-06-02 13:27:32
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-31 21:25:34
  • First insertion