CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6701
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
Integer overflow in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large AIO iovec.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.3.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.4 < 3.4.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.1 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/9 Mailing List
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314288 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893 Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.1 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/9 Mailing List
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314288 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893 Vendor Advisory