Comment on Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades

• rhombus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  CPU firmware exploits are incredibly rare, if there even are any that exist beyond proof-of-concept. The chances of getting an infected CPU from this is so unlikely it’s practically impossible.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You forget that the CPU has a nanny CPU built in these days.

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    • rhombus@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which, again, is an incredibly unlikely attack vector unless you have some government secrets on your computer. And chances are that any attack through the IME or PSP is trying to do an implant into the UEFI/BIOS and not the processor itself.

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