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AMD addresses Sinkclose vulnerability but older processors left unattended (www.csoonline.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The company has decided not to extend these updates to its Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 series processors or its Threadripper 1000 and 2000 models.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Well, I'm still using a Ryzen 3000 chip. Maybe I should go Intel next time. Oh wait, those are currently corroding from the inside. Guess I'll just stop using computers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Afaik you need kernel access to use this vulnerability. It still sucks, but having malware with kernel access sucks either way. So lets just hope that our favorite kernel anti-cheats never get compromised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I still love my 3000 series. Nice speed, low heat, good price. I'll probably upgrade my gpu again before replacing it. What a good little workhorse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I am hopeful that some further work on RISC-V gets some more competition in the space.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair it's now 3 gens old but I do feel the sentiment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are the newer ones any better? I’m not replacing my CPU, mobo, and ram for like a 25% improvement

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Even the low end cpus in the new 9000 series put my 5950X to shame

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x/3

Many pages of benchmarks here, keen to see what the 9950x can do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

AMD should patch whatever is still in widespread use, including the 3xxx series. It's not that old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is not a bug that affects consumers. plenty of hardware has firmware vulnerabilities like this, including ssds, the groups who care about this are the ones who have security as a top priority.