CVE-2016-3695 (GCVE-0-2016-3695)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-29 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102327Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322755Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/d7a6be58edc01b1c66ecd8fcc91236bfbce0a420Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102327Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322755Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/d7a6be58edc01b1c66ecd8fcc91236bfbce0a420Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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