CVE - CVE-2016-2143

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-2143	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:DSA-3607 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 MISC:RHSA-2016:1539 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.html MISC:RHSA-2016:2766 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1019 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1672 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1690 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1707 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:1764 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html MISC:SUSE-SU-2016:2074 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html MISC:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 URL:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 MISC:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html URL:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html MISC:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 URL:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 MISC:https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143 URL:https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20160129	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160129)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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