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CVE-2016-2143

CVE-2016-2143

EPSS 0.6%
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
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References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.htmlhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607