CVE-2012-6701 (GCVE-0-2012-6701)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-02 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:36
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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