Security Advisory

CVE-2016-3695

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-12-29 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:03:34
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The einj_error_inject 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.