'Zenbleed' bug leaks data from AMD Ryzen and Epyc Zen 2 chips

Penny Horwood
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'Zenbleed' bug leaks data from AMD Ryzen and Epyc Zen 2 chips

Google security researcher demonstrates that silicon level vulnerability he discovered could enable theft of sensitive data

Google's Tavis Ormandy posted yesterday a proof-of-concept exploit for a flaw he reported earlier this year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20593 is in all AMD CPUs built on the Zen 2 ar...

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