vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2012-6701: K13213573: Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2012-6701

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2016
Added
Jun 28, 2018
Modified
Apr 23, 2026

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

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest
Title
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