Report: AMD says Ryzenfall patches are on the way
Remember back in March when security firm CTS Labs appeared out of nowhere with news of a series of security vulnerabilities on AMD hardware? Regardless of questions about responsible disclosure or the origins of the company, the vulnerabilities are real. AMD responded a week later promising patches to mitigate the new attacks, but we haven't heard a peep since. As it turns out, we may just not have been listening in the right places. Tom's Hardware poked AMD about the firmware fixes, and this is what the company had to say:
Within approximately 30 days of being notified by CTS Labs, AMD released patches to our ecosystem partners mitigating all of the CTS identified vulnerabilities on our EPYCa platform as well as patches mitigating Chimera across all AMD platforms. These patches are in final testing with ...