Описание
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.
It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates the address space will try to copy memory areas outside of the address space limit for the child process.
Затронутые пакеты
Платформа | Пакет | Состояние | Рекомендация | Релиз |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Not affected | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Not affected | ||
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Not affected | ||
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Fixed | RHSA-2016:2766 | 15.11.2016 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Fixed | RHSA-2016:1539 | 02.08.2016 |
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Статус:
7.8 High
CVSS3
6.2 Medium
CVSS2
Связанные уязвимости
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.
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.
The fork implementation in the Linux kernel before 4.5 on s390 platfor ...
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.
ELSA-2016-2766: kernel security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT)
7.8 High
CVSS3
6.2 Medium
CVSS2