cve-2023-20530
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-01-10 20:57
Modified
2024-08-02 09:05
Severity ?
Summary
Insufficient input validation of BIOS mailbox messages in SMU may result in out-of-bounds memory reads potentially resulting in a denial of service.
Impacted products
AMD3rd Gen EPYC
Show details on NVD website


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