Re: AMD crash bug

["Adinolfi, Daniel R" <dadinolfi@mitre.org>]

Folks,

 

To follow up on this issue, it has been given a CVE ID: <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7262>

 

Please let us know if there are any questions.

 

Thanks.

 

-Dan

 

From: <owner-cve-editorial-board-list@lists.mitre.org> on behalf of Kurt Seifried <kseifried@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, March 24, 2017 at 16:25
To: Pascal Meunier <pmeunier@cerias.purdue.edu>
Cc: "Landfield, Kent B" <kent.b.landfield@intel.com>, Kurt Seifried <kurt@seifried.org>, cve-editorial-board-list <cve-editorial-board-list@lists.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: AMD crash bug

 

I'm not sure that the microcode is vulnerable per se, simply that they fixed it via a microcode update (which again blurs the line between hardware/software rather a lot if this is a "hardware" bug =). .

 

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Pascal Meunier <pmeunier@cerias.purdue.edu> wrote:

IMO giving an ID to vulnerable microcode fits the goals of the CVE, both
originally and now.  Lovely catch, Kurt.

Pascal

On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 00:43 +0000, Landfield, Kent B wrote:
> I agree. This seems to be in need of a CVE. Is AMD aware of it?
>
> Kent Landfield
> +1.817.637.8026
>
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Kurt Seifried <kurt@seifried.org<mailto:kurt@seifried.org>> wrote:
>
> So a Linux/Windows kernel crash triggered by a normal user would get a CVE. Why doesn't this get a CVE? Especially as it's fixable with a microcode update...
>
> http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605
> http://forum.hwbot.org/showpost.php?p=480524
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924192
>
> I think we need to cover hardware cases where it bricks/crashes the system/hardware at a minimum.
>
> Also I always thought AMD was a CNA, but they're not?
>
> --
> Kurt Seifried
> kurt@seifried.org<mailto:kurt@seifried.org>

 

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