Eighteen high severity vulnerabilities remediated in AMDs Radeon graphics driver packages
Summary
A hot potato: Graphics driver updates from GPU hardware manufacturers are typically met with healthy doses of excitement and skepticism. Some users look forward to the potential game and application support, functionality, or pure FPS a new package can provide. Unintended escalation of privileges, DLL hijacking, and arbitrary code execution are among the issues caused by the security holes. Malicious actors taking advantage of these exploits can cause user-facing impacts ranging from compromised information to complete data loss. These releases and their ability to remediate associated security concerns present an excellent case for end-users to review and consider driver updates based on more than just efficient data and image processing by their GPUs.
