Re: Interesting AMD security vulnerability

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 15 Aug 2004 - 18:01:11 IDT

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:05:47PM +0200, Danny Lieberman (Barak) wrote:

> Here's an interesting hardware security vulnerability. Turns out that
> it's possible to update the AMD K8 processor (Athlon64 or Opteron)
> microcode. And, get this, there's no authentication check.

I don't see what's special about AMD here? you can do ucode updates on
Intel CPUs as well.

Cheers,
Muli

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