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CVE-2016-2143

Published: Apr 27, 2016

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The fork implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 on s390 platforms mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application, related to arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h and arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

SUSE-SU-2016:1690

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1

x_refsource_CONFIRM

SUSE-SU-2016:1764

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

SUSE-SU-2016:1707

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:1672

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:1019

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

SUSE-SU-2016:2074

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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