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On March 12th, CTS Labs security researchers disclosed 13 exploitable vulnerabilities in some of AMD's products, including the AMD Secure Processor, PSP firmware, and Promontory chipset used in select AM4 and TR4 computer platforms.
AMD Confirms Security Vulnerabilities Found in Company's Chips
CPU Vulnerabilities Categorized into 4 Groups: MasterKey, RyzenFall, Fallout, and Chimera
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'An important note is that all issues raised by researchers require Admin privileges for system access. This type of access allows users to efficiently access the system and have the authority to delete, create, or modify any folder or file on the computer, as well as alter settings,' according to Mark Papermaster, AMD's Senior Vice President and CTO.
Among the affected processor lines, including AMD Ryzen, AMD Ryzen Pro, and AMD Ryzen Mobile affected by RyzenFall. AMD Ryzen and AMD Epyc impacted by MasterKey. AMD Ryzen and Ryzen Pro using the Promontory chipset are affected by Chimera, and only AMD Epyc chips are affected by Fallout.
AMD commits to addressing these issues in the coming days
It took AMD over a week to respond to CTS Labs' report. The company also pledges to resolve these issues in the coming days by releasing new BIOS updates. All affected users are recommended to update their system BIOS as soon as possible.
The company also notes that the disclosed vulnerabilities are unrelated to the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws discovered by Google Project Zero and universities earlier this year. AMD has also released patches for Meltdown and Spectre to minimize the impact of these vulnerabilities on user system performance.
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