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AMD ATI ATIDSMXX.SYS Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An AMD ATI driver is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability because it is a signed driver and can read/write kernel memory.

Attacker's can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code with SYSTEM-level privileges. Successful attacks will completely compromise affected computers.

This issue affects atidsmxx.sys 3.0.502.0; other versions may also be affected.







 

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