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CVE-2016-2143

CVSS v3.1 7.8 (High)
78% Progress
CVSS v2.0 6.9 (Medium)
69% Progress
EPSS 0.23 % (62th)
0.23% Progress
Affected Products 4
Advisories 12
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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.

Weaknesses
CWE-20
Improper Input Validation
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2016-04-27 17:59:08
(8 years ago)
Updated Date
2024-03-14 19:59:19
(6 months ago)

Affected Products

Debian

Linux

Oracle

Redhat

Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel from 2.6.25 version and prior 3.2.79 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 2.6.25 < 3.2.79
  Linux Kernel from 3.3 version and prior 3.12.58 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 3.3 < 3.12.58
  Linux Kernel from 3.13 version and prior 3.16.35 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 3.13 < 3.16.35
  Linux Kernel from 3.17 version and prior 4.1.21 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 3.17 < 4.1.21
  Linux Kernel from 4.2 version and prior 4.4.6 version cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel >= 4.2 < 4.4.6

Configuration #2

    CPE23 From Up To
  Debian Linux 6.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0
  Debian Linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0
  Debian Linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Configuration #3

    CPE23 From Up To
  Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0

Configuration #4

    CPE23 From Up To
  Oracle Linux 7 cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7