CVE-2012-6701

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

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.

CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-02 10:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-06-20 01:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

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

[oss-security] 20160302 Re: CVE Request: Linux: aio write triggers integer overflow in some network protocols

RHSA-2018:1854

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

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

Vendor Advisory

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