Vulnerability Spotlight: DoS vulnerability in ATIKMDAG.SYS AMD graphics driver

 
Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw.Cisco Talos recently discovered a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ATIKMDAG.SYS driver for some AMD graphics cards. An attacker could send the victim a specially crafted D3DKMTCreateAllocation API request to cause an out-of-bounds read, leading to a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability could be triggered from a guest account.
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