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AMD addresses Sinkclose vulnerability but older processors left unattended(www.csoonline.com)

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The company has decided not to extend these updates to its Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 series processors or its Threadripper 1000 and 2000 models.

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VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Well, I’m still using a Ryzen 3000 chip. Maybe I should go Intel next time. Oh wait, those are currently corroding from the inside. Guess I’ll just stop using computers.

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lengau@midwest.social
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I am hopeful that some further work on RISC-V gets some more competition in the space.

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twoface@sh.itjust.works
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Afaik you need kernel access to use this vulnerability. It still sucks, but having malware with kernel access sucks either way. So lets just hope that our favorite kernel anti-cheats never get compromised.

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BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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I still love my 3000 series. Nice speed, low heat, good price. I’ll probably upgrade my gpu again before replacing it. What a good little workhorse.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone
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To be fair it’s now 3 gens old but I do feel the sentiment

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traches@sh.itjust.works
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Are the newer ones any better? I’m not replacing my CPU, mobo, and ram for like a 25% improvement

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ryannathans@aussie.zone
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Even the low end cpus in the new 9000 series put my 5950X to shame

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x/3

Many pages of benchmarks here, keen to see what the 9950x can do

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floofloof@lemmy.ca
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AMD should patch whatever is still in widespread use, including the 3xxx series. It’s not that old.

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Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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This is not a bug that affects consumers. plenty of hardware has firmware vulnerabilities like this, including ssds, the groups who care about this are the ones who have security as a top priority.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone
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Yes

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Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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Safe to assume that these patches will be provided via operating system updates? Patch to the kernel for Linux users? I see bajillion articles when I look up sinkclose, but nothing about the patch method.

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Fecundpossum@lemmy.world
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Thanks 🙏🏻

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