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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

‘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

www.wired.com

alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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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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    Requires ring 0 access to the system in the first place. So for any normal user it’s a nothing burger

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    I have a pretty new AMD system I use for gaming. The vast majority of games run in a Windows VM in Proxmox with GPU passthrough with exception to Fortnite which runs directly on hardware on a different boot drive specifically because Easy Anticheat blocks VMs. That dedicated install becomes less and less attractive by the day.

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