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Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

This flaw allows attackers with local administrator privileges to bypass AMD's cryptographic verification system and install custom microcode updates on affected CPUs.

If you already have local administrator privileges, you have access to the system and its data anyway. Doesn't seem that critical a flaw. It doesn't even survive reboots.

Regardless, AMD has already issued a fix.

[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 16 points 17 hours ago

That's not a flaw. That's a right to repair requirement.

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