CVE-2016-3695: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 7.0 only

Published 2017-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.