CVE-2016-2143

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

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

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

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

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3