CVE-2020-12920 Denial of service in AMD Radeon Software
A low-privilege attacker can cause a system crash in the AMD Display driver via a specific call handler, requiring a driver update.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2020-12920?
CVE-2020-12920 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Amd Radeon Software, published on 15 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A potential denial of service issue exists in the AMD Display driver Escape 0x130007 Call handler. An attacker with low privilege could potentially induce a Windows BugCheck.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12920?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Amd Radeon Software.
How do I fix CVE-2020-12920?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12920 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2020-12920 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12920 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Amd Radeon Software
- CVE-2023-20586 Radeon™ Software Crimson ReLive Edition
- CVE-2023-20598 Privilege escalation in Ryzen™ 7020 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
- CVE-2020-12892 Path traversal in AMD Radeon Software
- CVE-2020-12893 Memory corruption in AMD Radeon Software
- CVE-2020-12895 Memory corruption in AMD Radeon Software
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4hqm-f6r2-3rpm.