CVE-2012-6701: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.0.33 (fixed in 3.0.33); from 3.1, before 3.2.19 (fixed in 3.2.19); from 3.3, before 3.3.8 (fixed in 3.3.8); from 3.4, before 3.4.1 (fixed in 3.4.1)

Published 2016-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.