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Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago

They're intrinsically linked, in fact. If you have kernel access, you can do any number of things, including but not limited to persistent rootkits. I agree that this bug is one step further, since it affects the processor itself, but if somebody has ring 0 access that shouldn't, you already have problems.