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Bug 1351076 - (CVE-2012-6703) CVE-2012-6703 kernel: Integer overflow in compress_core
CVE-2012-6703 kernel: Integer overflow in compress_core
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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impact=moderate,public=20120905,repor...
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Reported: 2016-06-29 03:39 EDT by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2016-06-29 03:39 EDT (History)
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-06-29 03:39:01 EDT
An integer overflow was found in snd_compr_allocate_buffer(), that could result into allocating smaller buffer than expected.

Upstream patch:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b35cc8225845112a616e3a2266d2fde5ab13d3ab

The patch was incomplete and introduced another issues known as CVE-2014-9904.

CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/616

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