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CVE-2016-2143
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-04-27T17:59:08.867 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:43:31.480

Summary

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

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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