{"id":"CVE-2016-3695","details":"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.","modified":"2026-03-12T22:22:34.453114Z","published":"2017-12-29T15:29:00.580Z","related":["CGA-8g9q-8gf4-cpvx","SUSE-SU-2022:3264-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3288-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3293-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3450-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3609-1","SUSE-SU-2022:3809-1","SUSE-SU-2022:4617-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:12697-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:13704-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102327"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322755"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/d7a6be58edc01b1c66ecd8fcc91236bfbce0a420"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3695.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7.0"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}