CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-8934

Published: Mar 22, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019

CVSS 3.x

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

9.3 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8934
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The Promontory chipset, as used in AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro platforms, has a backdoor in firmware, aka CHIMERA-FW.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Ryzen_pro_firmware	Amd	- (including)	- (including)

References

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