CVE-2021-46795 (GCVE-0-2021-46795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-10 20:53
Modified
2025-04-09 15:13
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
A TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) vulnerability exists where an attacker may use a compromised BIOS to cause the TEE OS to read memory out of bounds that could potentially result in a denial of service.
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AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Version: various
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