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Guru3D.com » News » AMD has readied patches against MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities

AMD has readied patches against MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/04/2018 07:45 AM | source: | 28 comment(s)
AMD has readied patches against MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities

AMD has finished up its patches for vulnerabilities that security company CTS Labs announced last month. The chip designer reports that the updates for, among others, Epyc chips are in the final phase of testing and should become available next month through a Firmware patch.

CTS Labs announced the bugs unexpectedly and without any warning a while ago, according to the security company, it would take many months to close the vulnerabilities. CTS recently once more contacted Toms Hardware to 'express their concern about the lack of updates from AMD regarding these vulnerabilities'. The company said it believed many of the vulnerabilities 'would take months to fix'. One of them, Chimera, would even require a hardware change.

According to AMD we can expect updates this month, AMD has explained to Tom's Hardware. Ecosystem partners should already have the new patches for internal testing with this response:

Within approximately 30 days of being notified by CTS Labs, AMD released patches to our ecosystem partners mitigating all of the CTS identified vulnerabilities on our EPYC platform as well as patches mitigating Chimera across all AMD platforms. These patches are in final testing with our ecosystem partners in advance of being released publicly.  We remain on track to begin releasing patches to our ecosystem partners for the other products identified in the report this month. We expect these patches to be released publicly as our ecosystem partners complete their validation work.

Let us again reiterate, the vulnerabilities within the AMD systems require admin privileges and for most things, physical access to the hardware to modify things, thus a local exploit in a context where Admin Access Rights are needed.

Meanwhile, CTS labs pushed another document full of accusations, released May 1st this month (there's not a single word on Intel recent or upcoming Vulnerabilities on their websites, of course):

 



AMD has readied patches against MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities




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Kaarme
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#5543795 Posted on: 05/04/2018 10:53 AM
I'm surprised this CTS Labs even exists anymore. The folks behind it had apparently used various front company names to pull off stock market and other tricks in the past as well. I reckon this case targeting AMD is their biggest heist so far, and they aren't sure when to stop. Probably they didn't manage to make as much money as they hoped when they first published these "shocking vulnerabilities". I'm not sure even Intel would deign to deal with these small-time crooks. Intel bosses might feel like there's no soap so strong it the world that they could ever wash the stench off if they shook hands these CTS Labs people.

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#5543802 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:04 PM
If only they were less stupid... Again, all they want it this being discussed in earnings call. All they care about is panic money.

AsiJu
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#5543804 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:15 PM
What, CTS Labs is still there?

Also gotta love this:

AMD:
"... as well as patches mitigating Chimera across all AMD platforms..."

CTS Labs:
"... CHIMERA cannot be directly fixed..."

also as pointed out above any "security" company citing Wikipedia articles as reference loses all credibility.

Last, I really fail to see the point of that document. They accuse AMD of not releasing patches, in a couple of weeks, for vulnerabilities they themselves said would take months to fix?

AMD should sue those mofos for all they're worth.

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#5543809 Posted on: 05/04/2018 12:45 PM
"The vulnerabilities within the AMD systems require admin privileges and for most things, physical access to the hardware to modify things"

So...
If a hacker comes knocking on your door holding a thumb drive...Kick him in the n*tz!



:D

Sempaii
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#5543820 Posted on: 05/04/2018 01:29 PM
Dare i ask why they even get there words on the page ;-)
Smells alot !

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