CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2013-6885

Published: Nov 29, 2013 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:A/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application, aka the errata 793 issue.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
16h_model_processor_firmware Amd - (including) - (including)
Xen Ubuntu devel *
Xen Ubuntu precise *
Xen Ubuntu quantal *
Xen Ubuntu raring *
Xen Ubuntu saucy *
Xen-3.3 Ubuntu lucid *
Xen-3.3 Ubuntu upstream *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-371.6.1.el5 *

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