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Red Hat: CVE-2012-6701: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:1854)

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Red Hat: CVE-2012-6701: Important: kernel security and bug fix update (RHSA-2018:1854)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/02/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/20/2018
Modified
03/03/2021

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel

References

  • CVE-2012-6701
  • RHSA-2018:1854

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