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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-36353
CVE-2024-36353:
Linux Kernel vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-36353 involves insufficient clearing of GPU global memory. This security flaw could potentially allow a malicious process running on the same GPU to access residual memory values (AMD Security Bulletin, Debian Tracker).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium) with the following vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, has low attack complexity, requires low privileges, needs no user interaction, has a changed scope, can result in high confidentiality impact, but has no impact on integrity or availability (AMD Security Bulletin).
Impact
The primary impact of this vulnerability is the potential loss of confidentiality, as it allows unauthorized access to residual data in GPU memory. A malicious process could potentially read sensitive information left in memory by other processes running on the same GPU (Debian Tracker).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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