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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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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 149 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is "releasing mitigations," so is it "unfixable?"

[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 51 points 3 months ago (5 children)

If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn't that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"They're going for the kernel!"

"Colonel who?"

[–] RacerX@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Cancer. Brain. Brain cancer.

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