cve/2016/CVE-2016-4804.md

### [CVE-2016-4804](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4804)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/mrash/afl-cve