There is a serious security flaw in billions of Intel CPUs that can let attackers steal confidential data like passwords and encryption keys. Firmware updates can fix it, but at a potential significant performance loss.

Oh no.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      …All Ryzen and Epyc processors were found to have a very similar bug not too long ago, it’s actually addressed in the article. You might want to read it…

      • xaera@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Here is a good write-up of Zenbleed for the Ryzen 2 and up vulnerability. It uses similar register optimisation and speculative execution to get the same effect.