Major side-channel security flaw found in AMD processors

[Jamie McKane]

Major side-channel security flaw found in AMD processors

Researchers at the Graz University of Technology have discovered security vulnerabilities affecting AMD CPUs launched between 2011 and 2019.

In a paper published on the subject, the researchers detailed two "Take A Way" attacks which can be used to exploit side-channel vulnerabilities in Ryzen processors.

 

[supersunbird]

/chuckles in Cyrix

 

[Crowley]

/Inb4 I've been AMD free for x amount of years posts.

 

[MirageF1]

lol where are all the fanboys now

/inb4 AMD trigger

 

[_TrXtR_]

/Inb4 I've been AMD free for x amount of years posts.

AMD is still the more secure chip
Been Intel free for 11 years

 

[Swa]

Think these were detailed before.

lol where are all the fanboys now

/inb4 AMD trigger

At least we don't pay an arm and a kidney.

 

[Fulcrum29]

Did Intel just sneak this out after their recent boo-boo?

Nah, Ryzen is a new architecture. It will take time to discover any replicable exploits and determine vulnerabilities. AMD already, by themselves, stated that these are not new speculation-based attacks. Intel will continue to be exposed to increased exploits as their current architecture ages.

Nothing boo-boo about this. Zero-day is zero-day, AMD should be glad that someone is looking into this. Again, with these exploits, there needs to be 'physical' access, so it is more a concern in regard to datacentres, etc. than your home PC which shouldn't be publicly accessible.

 

[Gozzy]

Not really a fanboy of either, but been with INTEL since the Athlon XP days, but hey I moved to AMD recently purely because I felt like it was the best bang for the buck and the upgrade path just seem much simpler, like right now I can get a 3990x on the same motherboard, with intel, I would have to get a new motherboard for what seems to be the exact same 14 nm architecture, just doesn't make sense.