USN-2986-1: dosfstools vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
31st May, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its dosfstools could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a Hanno B\u00f6ck discovered that dosfstools incorrectly handled certain malformed The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n CVE-2015-8872<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-4804<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-2986-1: dosfstools vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-2986-1: dosfstools vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2986-1 31st May, 2016 dosfstools vulnerabilities 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 B\u00f6ck discovered that dosfstools incorrectly handled certain malformedfilesystems. A local attacker could use this issue to cause dosfstools tocrash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrarycode. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: 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 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. In general, [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}dosfstools vulnerabilities<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
\nspecially crafted filesystem.\n<\/p>\nSoftware description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
filesystems. A local attacker could use this issue to cause dosfstools to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n 3.0.28-2ubuntu0.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.0.28-1ubuntu0.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.0.26-1ubuntu0.1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.0.12-1ubuntu1.3<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n