CVE-2016-3695

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3695
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3695.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3695
Downstream
Related
Withdrawn
2026-01-27T04:15:28.279589Z
Published
2017-12-29T15:29:00Z
Modified
2026-01-27T04:15:28.279589Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The einjerrorinject function in drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to simulate hardware errors and consequently cause a denial of service by leveraging failure to disable APEI error injection through EINJ when securelevel is set.

References

Affected packages