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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.

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need boot capabilities in order to “exploit” this

only with broken Secure Boot implementations

already patched in EPYC microcode

a nothingburger released suspiciously a day after Intel breaks news of being sued by their own shareholders (https://www.techpowerup.com/325414/intel-faces-shareholder-lawsuit-amid-financial-turmoil-and-layoffs-company-misled-investors)

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