CVE-2020-12933 Denial of service in AMD Graphics Driver for Windows

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A specially crafted API request in the AMD graphics driver causes an out-of-bounds read, leading to a denial of service from a non-privileged account.

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-2020-12933?

CVE-2020-12933 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in AMD Graphics Driver for Windows, published on 13 Oct 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the D3DKMTEscape handler functionality of AMD ATIKMDAG.SYS (e.g. version 26.20.15029.27017). A specially crafted D3DKMTEscape API request can cause an out-of-bounds read in Windows OS kernel memory area. This vulnerability can be triggered from a non-privileged account.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-12933?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Amd Atikmdag.sys.

How do I fix CVE-2020-12933?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-12933 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-2020-12933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-12933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-f48v-f365-33xw.

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