cve-2016-2143
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-27 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:17
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143Third Party Advisory
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