CVE-2024-21971 Denial of service in AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics
An attacker can crash the operating system by providing a specific process ID to the AMD Crash Defender kernel driver, causing a denial of service.
- 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-2024-21971?
CVE-2024-21971 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics, published on 12 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper input validation in AMD Crash Defender could allow an attacker to provide the Windows® system process ID to a kernel-mode driver, resulting in an operating system crash, potentially leading to denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-1220
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21971?
How do I fix CVE-2024-21971?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21971 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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Is CVE-2024-21971 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-21971 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6h98-c266-q7cr.