CVE-2022-23817 Memory corruption in AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
A malicious trusted application can exploit insufficient buffer checks in AMD Secure Processor to read/write kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation.
- 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-2022-23817?
CVE-2022-23817 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, published on 13 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Insufficient checking of memory buffer in AMD Secure Processor (ASP) Secure OS may allow an attacker with a malicious trusted application to read/write to the ASP Secure OS kernel virtual address space, potentially resulting in privilege escalation.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-23817?
How do I fix CVE-2022-23817?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-23817 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2022-23817 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23817 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3q84-pcr7-4gjf.