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CVE-2016-2143

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 den…

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.25 before 3.2.79
from 3.3 before 3.12.58
from 3.13 before 3.16.35
from 3.17 before 4.1.21
from 4.2 before 4.4.6
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Version 7.0
OracleLinux
Version 7

Weakness classification

CWE-20

References