FKIE_CVE-2024-21979

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-04-23 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:10
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
An out of bounds write vulnerability in the AMD Radeon™ user mode driver for DirectX® 11 could allow an attacker with access to a malformed shader to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution.
References
psirt@amd.comhttps://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1847
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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