Hardware & Technical Ryzen chips part of AMD security flaw

[Jon flint]

Thread topic heading should be redacted

Why?

 

[Jon flint]

mis·lead·ing
[ˌmisˈlēdiNG]

ADJECTIVE
giving the wrong idea or impression.
"your article contains a number of misleading statements"
synonyms: deceptive · confusing · deceiving · equivocal · ambiguous · fallacious · [more]

But the security flaws were genuine, AMD have already stated they're working on updates to address them.

 

[arneo]

The vulnerabilities require administrative access to be exploited (don't run[default] as Admin).
The hardware backdoor is in the ASmedia chips, also the notice to AMD for a fix was 24h (more commonly is 3 months).

This podcast Steve Gibson is talking about it, start at 13:45 https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/655?autostart=false

 

[Shadowdancer]

The hardware backdoor is in the ASmedia chips, also the notice to AMD for a fix was 24h (more commonly is 3 months).

Dell was pushing an "important" update to ASMedia USB controller drivers recently, I wonder why