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CentOS Linux: CVE-2012-6701: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:1854)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2012-6701: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (CESA-2018:1854)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/02/2016
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-kernel

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