Denial of Service in AMD ATIKMDAG.SYS Driver
CVE-2020-12933

5.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Amd
Status
Amd Graphics Driver For Windows
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 October 2020

Summary

A denial of service vulnerability exists within the D3DKMTEscape handler of the AMD ATIKMDAG.SYS driver. This issue allows an attacker to execute specially crafted D3DKMTEscape API requests, resulting in an out-of-bounds read in the Windows OS kernel memory area. Importantly, this vulnerability can be exploited by a non-privileged account, posing a risk to system stability and performance.

Affected Version(s)

AMD Graphics Driver for Windows Fixed in version 20.50 and later

References

https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-security
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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