CVE-2021-46769 (GCVE-0-2021-46769)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-09 18:36 – Updated: 2025-01-28 15:57
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Summary
Insufficient syscall input validation in the ASP Bootloader may allow a privileged attacker to execute arbitrary DMA copies, which can lead to code execution.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
AMD
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
AMD 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Affected: various
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