CVE-2016-2143

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2143
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2143.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2143
Downstream
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Published
2016-04-27T17:59:08.867Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:18:28.458015Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

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Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "2.6.25"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.2.79"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.3"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.12.58"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.13"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "3.16.35"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.17"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.1.21"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "4.2"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "4.4.6"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "6.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7-0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2143.json"