AMD Zen CPU Vulnerabilities Disclosure
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•AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
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AMD and Google publicly disclosed September findings of a key microcode vulnerability in AMD Zen 1 to Zen 4 CPUs.
This vulnerability, CVE-2024-56161 , is discussed in more detail in the GitHub post from the Google Security Research team and, of course, AMD 's security bulletin on the vulnerability.
The original issue was reported on September 25, 2024 , and subsequently fixed by AMD about two and a half months later .
The public disclosure date was delayed until February 3 to give AMD 's customers time to apply the fix before the issue became more widespread.
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