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Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors (www.techspot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

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[–] cron@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The researchers discovered that AMD had been using a publicly available example key from NIST documentation since Zen 1, which allowed them to forge signatures and deploy arbitrary microcode modifications.

I wish these sorts of errors were not that common.