Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published May 18, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-7246
CVE-2019-7246
Description
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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Affected products
3- AMD/ATI Diagnostics Hardware Abstraction Sys/Overclocking Utilitydescription
- Range: = 5.11.9.0
Patches
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References
1- github.com/fireeye/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/FEYE-2019-0015/FEYE-2019-0015.mdnvdThird Party Advisory
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