CVE-2012-6703
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6703
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-6703.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-6703
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-06-29T14:10:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Integer overflow in the sndcomprallocatebuffer function in sound/core/compressoffload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.6-rc6-next-20120917 allows local users to cause a denial of service (insufficient memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRVCOMPRESSSET_PARAMS ioctl call.
- References
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- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1351076
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/28/6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91502
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036190
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.6-rc6-next-20120917.xz