Bug 2562560 (CVE-2026-118384)

Summary: CVE-2026-118384 mtools: mtools: Denial of Service via out-of-bounds write in VFAT parsing
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Version: unspecifiedCC: rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in mtools. This out-of-bounds write vulnerability allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or corrupt memory. By tricking a user into processing a specially crafted disk image containing malformed VFAT directory entries, the application writes beyond allocated buffer boundaries, resulting in an application crash.
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Bug Depends On: 2566914, 2566915, 2566916    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 03:01:29 UTC
GNU mtools through 4.0.49 has an out-of-bounds write in parse_vses in vfat.c.