So, this pretty much puts the "OMGZ Major Fatal Flaws in AMD processors" garbage to bed. Nothing more than a few basic bugs that they'll have fixed in a couple weeks. Something they could have done without the bad publicity gained by CTS breaking industry standards. Not only that, but the "flaws" do in fact need full system administrator access...
From the article: "It’s important to note that all the issues raised in the research require administrative access to the system, a type of access that… See More
effectively grants the user unrestricted access to the system and the right to delete, create or modify any of the folders or files on the computer, as well as change any settings. Any attacker gaining unauthorized administrative access would have a wide range of attacks at their disposal well beyond the exploits identified in this research."
So, as many were saying from the get go, this was a FUD piece and not much more. Considering they got it to Viceroy before releasing it, it is quite certain it was mainly done to short stock, as such I am figuring the SEC may be having a look into this.
I am also assuming we won't see any more rushed "papers" from CTS-Labs, if any at all. If we do, they will be taken with a grain of salt and a very high raised eyebrow.
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That was picked up on very early, by many tech sites.
There is a tendency to misrepresent the facts in order to gain page views, but there was at least amongst those I saw a pretty unanimous stance on CTS being downright dodgy.
And from my understanding the system exploited in several, if not all of the exploits can actually be disabled in the BIOS at least on Ryzen systems.
Something actually in place as an option long before this was even announced.
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