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Debian 8: DLA-2224-1 Critical: Dosfstools Invalid Memory Overflow

debian lts
Calendar Grey May 30, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian 8 receives a vital update from Dosfstools addressing severe memory and overflow vulnerabilities identified in the latest releases.
It was discovered that there was both an invalid memory and heap overflow vulnerability in dosfstools, a collection of utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
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Summary


For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
3.0.27-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dosfstools packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: dosfstools
Version: 3.0.27-1+deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8872 CVE-2016-4804

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