A vulnerability found in certain AMD processor firmware has been patched by the company, it was revealed at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress.
According to Heise.de, the vulnerability was found in the Trinity, Richland, Kaveri and Kabini series of the chip by Czech programmer Rudolf Marek. He explained how insufficiently protected code signatures and other errors in the firmware could be used by hackers to inject software, which could then be executed by the System Management Unit and Accelerated Processing Units.
Vulnerability found in AMD processor firmware
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