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They don't want to fix this for Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. I guess they're not getting money from me for at least 5 years. How is a compromised AMD CPU better th

• gruez 2y ago
  >They don't want to fix this for Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. [...] >How is a compromised AMD CPU better than Intel's CPUs which get damaged due to oxidation and high voltage? From a sibling comment: >Improper validation in a model specific register (MSR) could allow a malicious program with ring0 access For the typical desktop scenario, this is a nothingaburger because it's already game over if malicious code can get any sort of access[1]. It might matter more for server providers because their customers can execute arbitrary ring0 code in guest VMs, but it's unclear whether it affects that or not. Having security bugs isn't great, but in this case having hardware degradation leading to performance loss and/or crashing is much noticeable. [1] https://xkcd.com/1200/ https://xkcd.com/1200/