Radeon™ Driver for DirectX® 11 Shader Vulnerabilities
CVE Details
Refer to Glossary for explanation of terms
| CVE | Severity | CVE Description |
| CVE-2024-21972 | Medium | 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. |
| CVE-2024-21979 | Medium | 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. |
Affected Products and Mitigation
AMD recommends updating to the AMD graphics driver version (or later) indicated below.
Discrete Graphics
| Platform | CVE(s) | Release Version |
| AMD Radeon™ RX Vega Series Graphics Cards AMD Radeon™ VII |
CVE-2024-21972 CVE-2024-21979 |
AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1 (23.19.10) |
| AMD Radeon™ PRO WX Vega Series Graphics Cards AMD Radeon™ PRO VII |
AMD Software: PRO Edition 24.Q1 (23.19.12) |
Data Center Graphics
| Platform | CVE(s) | Release Version |
| AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25 | CVE-2024-21972 CVE-2024-21979 |
AMD Software: PRO Edition 23.Q3.1 (23.10.18) |
Client Processors
| Formerly codenamed programs | Platform | CVE(s) | Release Version Mitigation |
| “Barcelo” | AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | CVE-2024-21972 CVE-2024-21979 |
AMD Software:Adrenalin Edition 24.1.1 (23.19.10) |
| “Barcelo R” | AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Cezanne” | AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Cezanne” AM4 | AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processor with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Dali” FP5 | AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Lucienne” | AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| "Picasso" FP5 | AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Picasso” AM4 | AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Pollock” | AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Renoir” | AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics | ||
| “Renoir” FP6 | AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics |
Embedded
Platform |
CVE(s) |
Release Version Mitigation | |
| AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1000 | All V1000 OPNs excluding YE1500C4T4MFH | CVE-2024-21972 CVE-2024-21979 |
23.19.16 |
| AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1000 | YE1500C4T4MFH | ||
| AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V2000 | |||
| AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R1000 | |||
| AMD Ryzen™ Embedded R2000 | |||
Acknowledgement
AMD thanks Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos for reporting this issue and engaging in coordinated vulnerability disclosure.
Revisions
Revision Date |
Description |
| 2024-08-19 | Updated with Embedded processors and mitigation |
| 2024-05-07 | Update: Mitigation available for AMD Radeon Instinct™ MI25 Corrected “Barcelo R” series |
2024-04-09 |
Initial publication |
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