Security vulnerabilities in some AMD ATI Radeon graphics cards could allow attackers to remotely execute code or cause a denial of service condition, researchers from Cisco Talos have warned.
A total of four security flaws were disclosed, all of them impacting the AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver: three out-of-bounds bugs and one type confusion issue. All four issues have been patched by AMD.
Each of the first three vulnerabilities, which are tracked as CVE-2019-5124, CVE-2019-5147, and CVE-2019-5146, carry a CVSS score of 8.6.
To trigger these out-of-bounds security flaws, an attacker would need to supply a specially crafted, malformed pixel shader.
This type of attack, Cisco Talos explains in a vulnerability report, can be triggered from inside VMware guest usermode “to cause an out-of-bounds read in the vmware-vmx.exe process on host, or theoretically through WEBGL (remote website).”
Cisco’s researchers tested and confirmed these vulnerabilities in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL, version 26.20.13025.10004, running on Radeon RX 550 / 550 Series graphics cards, on VMware Workstation 15 with Windows 10 x64 as guestVM.
As for the fourth vulnerability, it impacts AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 26.20.13031.10003, 26.20.13031.15006 and 26.20.13031.18002 (same graphics cards series and platform).
The type confusion issue can be caused by a specially crafted pixel shader and could lead to potential code execution. An attacker can trigger the flaw from the VMware guest by providing a specially crafted shader file.
“The vulnerability will be triggered in the vmware-vmx.exe process on host, or theoretically through WEBGL (remote website), leading to potential code execution (through a vtable type-confusion),” Cisco Talos explains.
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