Stack-based buffer overflow in AMD products - CVE-2021-46746

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Stack-based buffer overflow in AMD products - CVE-2021-46746

Published: October 2, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU97949
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-46746
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: AMD
Affected software:
1st Gen AMD EPYC Processors
2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors
4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in ASP Secure OS Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). A local privileged user with access to AMD signing keys can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


How to mitigate CVE-2021-46746

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

The vendor is not planning to release a security patch to address this vulnerability.


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