Security Advisory
CVE-2016-2143
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
April 27, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory