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CVE-2013-6885

Date: November 28, 2013

The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application, aka the errata 793 issue.

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2011-December/046594.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124199.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6885

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124195.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00026.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123553.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63983

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/02/1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6885

Url: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/amd-owns-up-to-cpu-bug/18924

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89335

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029415

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3128

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55840

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6885

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html

Url: http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/51810_16h_00h-0Fh_Rev_Guide.pdf

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1035823

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-6885

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.7
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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Date: November 28, 2013

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