{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-05-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: AIO interface didn't use rw_verify_area() for checking mandatory locking on files and size of access",
    "id" : "1314288",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314288"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-190",
  "details" : [ "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.", "It was found that AIO interface didn't use the proper rw_verify_area() helper function with extended functionality, for example, mandatory locking on the file. Also rw_verify_area() makes extended checks, for example, that the size of the access doesn't cause overflow of the provided offset limits. This 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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.\nThis issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.\nThis issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2 as the corresponding fix is already present.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2018-06-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2018:1854",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-754.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6701\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6701" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-6701",
  "csaw" : false
}