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CVE-2012-6701

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.35% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-05-02 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2012-6701
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.35%
Linux

Original NVD 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.