| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, 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) | 4.19.289-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.197-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.191-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.64-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.52-1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 6.5.13-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
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)