CVE-2012-6701

high

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314288

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/9

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.1

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-05-02

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H