7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2012-6701

Published: 02/05/2016 Updated: 17/01/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) b ...

Github Repositories

Large Commit Precise Vulnerability Dataset based on AOSP CVE

Building a Commit-level Dataset of Real-world Vulnerabilities This repository is the companion for the paper Building a Commit-level Dataset of Real-world Vulnerabilities published in CODASPY 2022 Installation You can install the code of the helpers by cloning this repository and using pip install (he trailing dot is important) Note that the code targets Python 310+ and ha