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CVE-2016-2143

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CVSS 3.1
7.8 high
EPSS
<1%p45
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
linuxdebianredhatoracle
Products
linux kernel, debian linux, enterprise linux, linux
Weakness
CWE-20
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.6%)

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