Tracker / CVE-2016-2143
CVE-2016-2143
High 7.8
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.
Affected products and versions
| debian | debian_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 2.6.25 → 3.2.79 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.16.35 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.17 → 4.1.21 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.12.58 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.6 |
| oracle | linux |
| redhat | enterprise_linux |
Analysis
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