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Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 45 points 3 months ago (8 children)

As pointed out elsewhere, the attack requires kernel-level access, and anyone with that access can do a lot of damage anyway.

And the flaw can be fixed (there's a fix out), it's just that there's no remediation once the flaw has been exploited.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

It also means no AMD server could be resold because there is no way to know if it was previously infected

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