CVE-2013-6885

EPSS 0.6%

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.

Affected products

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References

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2011-December/046594.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123553.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124195.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124199.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/1 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html