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                "introduced": "2.6.25"
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                "fixed": "3.2.79"
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                "fixed": "3.12.58"
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            "events": [
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                "introduced": "3.17"
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              {
                "fixed": "4.1.21"
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          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "4.2"
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              {
                "fixed": "4.4.6"
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          },
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
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              {
                "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"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "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.",
  "id": "CVE-2016-2143",
  "modified": "2026-03-15T21:49:33.536674063Z",
  "published": "2016-04-27T17:59:08.867Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00019.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00052.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00054.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00059.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2766.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3607"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00005.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1539.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2143"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3446c13b268af86391d06611327006b059b8bab1"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}