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CVE-2012-6701

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Date: May 2, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-6701

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

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6701

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

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6701

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6701

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CWE-190

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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