PT-2017-8410

CVE-2016-3695

Published

2017-12-29

Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1

5.5

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to simulate hardware errors, leading to a denial of service. This is due to the failure to disable APEI error injection through the einj error inject function in drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c when securelevel is set.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Impacts

Researchers

Adam Mariš

Linn Crosetto

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component (\'Injection\')

Related identifiers

CVE-2016-3695

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3264-1