CVE-2024-21979 - OpenCVE

An out of bounds write vulnerability in the AMD Radeon™ user mode driver for DirectX® 11 could allow an attacker with access to a malformed shader to potentially achieve arbitrary code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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References

Link	Providers
https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1847

History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1847

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: AMD

Published: 2024-04-23T16:36:38.556Z

Updated: 2025-11-04T18:23:18.731Z

Reserved: 2024-01-03T16:43:30.197Z

Link: CVE-2024-21979

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:35:34.619Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-23T17:15:46.877

Modified: 2025-11-04T19:16:31.497

Link: CVE-2024-21979

Redhat

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