github - ghsa-4r5c-7wgh-g673

ghsa-4r5c-7wgh-g673

Vulnerability from github

Published

2024-04-23 18:30

Modified

2025-11-04 21:31

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2024-04-23 16:36

Modified

2025-11-04 18:23

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE

CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write

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

URL

Tags

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition

Version: 0 < 12.1.1

AMD Software: PRO Edition

Version: 0 < 24.Q1

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