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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] avidamoeba -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

~~Anyway.~~

~~Run AMD.~~

[–] circuscritic 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

...All Ryzen and Epyc processors were found to have a very similar bug not too long ago, it's actually addressed in the article. You might want to read it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Here is a good write-up of Zenbleed for the Ryzen 2 and up vulnerability. It uses similar register optimisation and speculative execution to get the same effect.