Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple vulnerabilities in some AMD graphics cards
Summary: Cisco Talos discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver for AMD Radeon graphics cards, triggered by specially crafted pixel shader files delivered while using VMware Workstation 15. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2019-5147, CVE-2019-5146 and CVE-2019-5183 across driver versions 26.20.13001.50005 through 26.20.13031.18002, can be triggered from VMware guest usermode to cause denial of service or potentially remote code execution affecting the VMware host.
Bottom line: An attacker inside a VMware guest can reach the host through a graphics driver shader, so the isolation boundary your virtualization strategy depends on is the same path the exploit takes.
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- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2019-5146CVE-2019-5147CVE-2019-5183
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