Researchers Find Critical Security Flaws in AMD Chips

security week ^ | 3/13/2018 | AFP

[texas booster]

... “is currently being shipped with exploitable manufacturer backdoors inside.”

There is a world of difference between discovering a flaw in any architecture, and claiming that the manufacturer deliberately left known backdoors in a product.

This looks like PR spin rather than a reasoned report on AMD engineering.

All complex products will have a “flaw” discovered at some point, if only through new research directly into exploiting the hardware.

When I read this line in the statement, I had to check to see if Intel owned CTS.

[Soros Billions]

My understanding is that AMD is under attack from Wall Street Boogey Men. Stock closed up on Tuesday after an Extremely Volatile session. I have said in the past that AMD is guilty of Intel’s crimes

[matthew fuller]

Ryzen

Ryzen is an AMD brand for microprocessors. The brand was introduced in 2017 with products implementing their Zen microarchitecture.

First Ryzen-branded products were officially announced during AMD’s New Horizon summit on December 13, 2016. Wikipedia

[djf]

Waitin and waitin and waitin for somebody to show one of these flaws hitting an IBM machine...

And waitin and waitin and wai...

[ConservativeMind]

Folks, this only affects a small number of chips.

The article says the vulnerabilities affect the “AMD Secure Processor.” Folks, that’s only used in special chips corporations use to remotely manage their computers. Normal and high-end chips don’t have this.

From AMD:

“AMD Secure Processor is currently only available on select AMD A-Series and AMD E-Series APUs.”

https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/security

[bitt]

YAY!!

[TChad]

AMD's Response to date:

The View from Our Corner of The Street

We have just received a report from a company called CTS Labs claiming there are potential security vulnerabilities related to certain of our processors. We are actively investigating and analyzing its findings. This company was previously unknown to AMD and we find it unusual for a security firm to publish its research to the press without providing a reasonable amount of time for the company to investigate and address its findings. At AMD, security is a top priority and we are continually working to ensure the safety of our users as potential new risks arise. We will update this blog as news develops.