CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3699
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Linux kernel, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 and when booted with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, allows local users to bypass intended Secure Boot restrictions and execute untrusted code by appending ACPI tables to the initrd.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel
• redhat enterprise mrg 2.0
• redhat linux 7.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/4 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93114 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329653 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/a4a5ed2835e8ea042868b7401dced3f517cafa76 Exploit
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/22/4 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93114 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329653 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/mjg59/linux/commit/a4a5ed2835e8ea042868b7401dced3f517cafa76 Exploit