CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2143
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.25 < 3.2.79)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.12.58)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.16.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 4.1.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.6)
• debian debian linux 6.0
• debian debian linux 7.0
• debian debian linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 7.0
• oracle linux 7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 Patch
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 Patch
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143 Third Party Advisory