CVE-2016-2143

Name	CVE-2016-2143
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-516-1, DSA-3607-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.81-1	DLA-516-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u2	DSA-3607-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.4.6-1

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <no-dsa> (Architecture not supported in Wheezy LTS)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1 (v4.5)
Introduced in: https://git.kernel.org/linus/6252d702c5311ce916caf75ed82e5c8245171c92 (v2.6.25-rc1)