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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-3695

CVE-2016-3695

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.

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