CVE-2013-6885

Publication date

2013-11-29 02:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.