A flaw was found in AMD processors. This flaw allows an attacker with system administration privileges to exploit an issue in the signature verification in the AMD CPU ROM microcode patch loader, allowing the load of malicious microcode. This issue could impact the integrity of x86 instruction execution, confidentiality, and data integrity in x86 CPU-privileged context and compromise the SMM execution environment.
History

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:45:00 +0000

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Description No description is available for this CVE. A flaw was found in AMD processors. This flaw allows an attacker with system administration privileges to exploit an issue in the signature verification in the AMD CPU ROM microcode patch loader, allowing the load of malicious microcode. This issue could impact the integrity of x86 instruction execution, confidentiality, and data integrity in x86 CPU-privileged context and compromise the SMM execution environment.

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

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Description No description is available for this CVE.
Title kernel: hw:amd: Improper signature verification in AMD CPU ROM microcode patch loader
Weaknesses CWE-99
References
Metrics threat_severity

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cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important


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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2025-03-05T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-36347 - Bugzilla