CVE-2017-7262

Publication date 25 March 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The AMD Ryzen processor with AGESA microcode through 2017-01-27 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via an application that makes a long series of FMA3 instructions, as demonstrated by the Flops test suite.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
amd64-microcode	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

Debian

Hardware bug in AMD Ryzen CPUs, cannot be fixed via micro code updates, but only BIOS updates

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H