[HN Gopher] Millions of AMD PCs affected by new CPU driver flaw ...
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       Millions of AMD PCs affected by new CPU driver flaw need to be
       patched ASAP
        
       Author : CrankyBear
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2021-10-03 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techspot.com)
        
       | josteink wrote:
       | Yay. Any news about updates on the Linux front?
       | 
       | I saw Ubuntu had a new version of Linux-firmware posted since
       | last time I updated, but I'm not continuously updating so I'm not
       | sure if that's this thing or something else entirely.
        
         | reanimus wrote:
         | It's not a bug in the PSP itself, it's a bug in the Windows
         | driver for it. According to the security bulletin [0], it's due
         | to a misconfiguration of DACLs (which is Windows specific), so
         | I don't think it affects Linux users.
         | 
         | [0] https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/product-
         | security/bulletin/a...
        
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