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CVE-2024-21972

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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

• AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition: before 12.1.1 — fixed in 12.1.1
• AMD Software: PRO Edition: before 24.Q1 — fixed in 24.Q1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 12.1.1; AMD Software: PRO Edition 24.Q1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
• https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-6012.html
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1848

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