CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6703
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-29
- 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 the snd_compr_allocate_buffer function in sound/core/compress_offload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.6-rc6-next-20120917 allows local users to cause a denial of service (insufficient memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS ioctl call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.7)
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=b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/28/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91502 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036190 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351076 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab github.com
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.6-rc6-next-20120917.xz www.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/28/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91502 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036190 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351076 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab github.com
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.6-rc6-next-20120917.xz www.kernel.org