CVE-2012-6701

high
Published 2016-05-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6701

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a70b52ec1aaeaf60f4739edb1b422827cb6f3893

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6701.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
linux linux-kernelaffected3.0.33

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.