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CVE-2016-4804

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2 EPSS 0.45% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-06-03 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2016-4804
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.2
EPSS
0.45%

Original NVD Description

The read_boot function in boot.c in dosfstools before 4.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted filesystem, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in the (1) read_fat function or an out-of-bounds heap read in (2) get_fat function.