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GHSA-4R5C-7WGH-G673

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-23 18:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:31

Details

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.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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CVE-2024-21979 (GCVE-0-2024-21979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-23 16:36 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:23

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.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-23 18:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

Assigner

AMD mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security…
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_r…

Impacted products

3 products

Vendor	Product	Version
AMD	AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition	Affected: 0 , < 12.1.1 (custom)
AMD	AMD Software: PRO Edition	Affected: 0 , < 24.Q1 (custom)
amd	radeon_directx_11_driver_dll	Affected: * cpe:2.3:a:amd:radeon_directx_11_driver_dll::::::::

Date Public

2024-04-09 16:23

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