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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, it does not mean you would need to do that.

The more likely scenario is an attacker using another vulnerability, either in the OS itself or in a vendor-supplied component like a driver or anti-cheat module, to gain a foothold for this one. Chaining exploits is a very common technique. (What "trade" are you in, exactly?)

Apply the mitigations when they become available for your hardware, folks.