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High · 7.5 CVE-2022-23820 EUVD-2022-28749GHSA-9fmg-2fcx-q3vf

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary code execu…

Published Nov 14, 2023 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by AMD

Vendor: AMD Product: 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Product: AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Picasso” AM4 Product: AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Pollock” Product: AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003 Product: AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics “Picasso” FP5 Product: AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Renoir” FP6 Product: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processor with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors “Vermeer” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Lucienne” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Barcelo” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics "Rembrandt" Product: AMD Ryzen™ 7030 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Barcelo-R” Product: AMD Ryzen™ 7035 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Rembrandt-R” Product: AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 2000 Series Processors “Colfax” Product: AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 3000 Series Processors “Castle Peak” HEDT Product: AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3000WX Series Processors “Chagall” WS Product: AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processors “Castle Peak” WS SP3 Product: Ryzen™ 3000 series Desktop Processors “Matisse"

Description

Failure to validate the AMD SMM communication buffer
may allow an attacker to corrupt the SMRAM potentially leading to arbitrary
code execution.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AMD Ryzen™ 3000 series Desktop Processors “Matisse" various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors “Vermeer” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processor with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne” various —
AMD AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Picasso” AM4 various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 2000 Series Processors “Colfax” Various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ 3000 Series Processors “Castle Peak” HEDT various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO Processors “Castle Peak” WS SP3 various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 3000WX Series Processors “Chagall” WS various —
AMD AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Pollock” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics “Picasso” FP5 various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Renoir” FP6 various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Lucienne” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Cezanne” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 6000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics "Rembrandt" various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7035 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Rembrandt-R” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Barcelo” various —
AMD AMD Ryzen™ 7030 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics “Barcelo-R” various —
AMD 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors various —
AMD AMD EPYC™ Embedded 7003 various —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-firmware 20230724-150500.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4660-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
SLES 15 SP3 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
SLES 15 SP2 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
SLES 15 SP1 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
Show 14 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-firmware 20190618-5.34.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4655-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP3 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP2 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP1 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 kernel-firmware 20190618-5.34.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4655-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-firmware 20230724-150500.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2376-1, SUSE-SU-2023:4660-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
SLE Micro 5.2 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
SLE Micro 5.1 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
SLE HPC 15 SP3 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
SLE HPC 15 SP2 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
SLE HPC 15 SP1 kernel-firmware 20200107-150100.3.40.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4665-1
SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 kernel-firmware 20210208-150300.4.19.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4654-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-firmware 20231128-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13475-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-firmware-ath12k 20250206-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14772-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-firmware 20230724-150500.3.9.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4660-1
openSUSE Leap 15.4 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 kernel-firmware 20220509-150400.4.25.1 SUSE-SU-2023:4664-1

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