CVE-2013-6885

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.

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• secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123553.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124195.html
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• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00010.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00011.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00015.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00021.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00026.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00000.html
• secalert@redhathttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/11/28/1
• secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0285.html
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/55840
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201407-03.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://support.amd.com/TechDocs/51810_16h_00h-0Fh_Rev_Guide.pdf