The RCE that AMD won't fix!

The RCE that AMD won’t fix NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS OUT OF DATE, PLEASE READ THE UPDATED VERSION HERE!
After being interrupted multiple times by an annoying console window that would pop up periodically on my new gaming PC, I managed to track the offending executable down to AMD’s AutoUpdate software.
In my anger, I decided to punish this software by decompiling it to figure out how it worked, and accidentally discovered a trivial Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the process.