Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
arstechnica.com Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips
Worse-case scenario: "You basically have to throw your computer away."
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After reading that whole article I feel no more enlightened.
They mentioned secure boot, is secure boot part of the exploit or does the exploit invalidate secure boot?
Because if I understood it right, it will be presented at DEFCON tomorrow, this news are just hyping it.
We don't know what is the install vector, it might be a non issue (for regular people) where you need a custom chip programmer and hands on the hardware
The wired article mentions kernel access to be sufficient.
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