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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 149 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (19 children)

Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is "releasing mitigations," so is it "unfixable?"

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think they meant it as "once infected may be impossible to disinfect." But it sure doesn't read that way at first glance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they change it? Because now it says "Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections" and that seems to say exactly what you are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Surely one could use the same exploit to restore the original boot code as the malware used to corrupt it

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