Re:Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hou...
by tptacek on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @06:42PM
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You're recapitulating an argument that Arrigo Triulzi posted on Twitter based on his reading of the CPS-Labs white paper. The white paper doesn't include technical information about the flaws.
Dan Guido and Trail of Bits got to read the actual report, and vouched for them as real vulnerabilities. The fact that there are vulnerabilities in signed drivers is a bad thing: it means that AMD shipped cryptographically signed versions of vulnerabilities. Arrigo's twitter thread implied that the use of signed code somehow mitigated the vulnerabilities, but the opposite thing is true.
Dan Guido and Trail of Bits got to read the actual report, and vouched for them as real vulnerabilities. The fact that there are vulnerabilities in signed drivers is a bad thing: it means that AMD shipped cryptographically signed versions of vulnerabilities. Arrigo's twitter thread implied that the use of signed code somehow mitigated the vulnerabilities, but the opposite thing is true.