CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-2143.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjul2016-3090544.html

Github

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