CVE-2021-26337 Denial of service in Athlon™ Series

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Insufficient DRAM address validation in AMD SMU firmware allows attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering invalid DMA reads.

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-2021-26337?

CVE-2021-26337 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, published on 16 Nov 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Insufficient DRAM address validation in System Management Unit (SMU) may result in a DMA read from invalid DRAM address to SRAM resulting in SMU not servicing further requests.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-26337?

It affects 112 products.

Products include Amd Epyc 7002 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7003 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware, Amd Epyc 7252 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7262 Firmware, Amd Epyc 7272 Firmware and 106 more.

How do I fix CVE-2021-26337?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-26337 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-2021-26337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-26337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Amd Epyc 7232p Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x8m5-26rq-667q.

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