AMD RAID Driver Vulnerability

Summary

AMD received a report through the Product Security Bug Bounty Program indicating that improper input validation in systems that have the AMD RAID driver installed and active (for example, with RAID mode enabled in system firmware), could potentially be exploited using a Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) chain.  The reported vulnerability could allow an attacker to escalate to kernel level privileges and potentially achieve arbitrary code execution, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability.  AMD believes that this attack would require a system user to install a malicious program and recommends users follow safe computing practices, including not installing software from unknown sources.

Acknowledgement 

AMD thanks researcher “vul_pwner” for participating in the AMD Bug Bounty Program: 

CVE-2024-21962

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