An issue was discovered in atillk64.sys in AMD ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utility 5.11.9.0. The vulnerable driver exposes a wrmsr instruction and does not properly filter the Model Specific Register (MSR). Allowing arbitrary MSR writes can lead to Ring-0 code execution and escalation of privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-05-18T15:56:48

Updated: 2020-05-18T15:56:48

Reserved: 2019-01-31T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2019-7246

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-05-18T16:15:11.297

Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747


Link: CVE-2019-7246

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