AMD Security Announcement on Fallout, RIDL and ZombieLoad Attack

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/15/2019 10:52 AM | source: | 89 comment(s)

AMD today responded to yesterday's news about the new serious Intel processor vulnerabilities. In this announcement, they confirmed that their processors are not susceptible to this kind of vulnerability.

Yesterday, researchers announced three new security exploits – Fallout, Rogue In-Flight Data Load (RIDL) and “ZombieLoad Attack”. Based on our internal assessment, we believe AMD products are not impacted by these new threats.

Below is our public statement, which you’ll also find available here.

At AMD we develop our products and services with security in mind. Based on our analysis and discussions with the researchers, we believe our products are not susceptible to ‘Fallout’, ‘RIDL’ or ‘ZombieLoad Attack’ because of the hardware protection checks in our architecture. We have not been able to demonstrate these exploits on AMD products and are unaware of others having done so.

You can read up all about it in this whitepaper, titled “Speculation Behavior in AMD Micro-Architectures.”

Related Stories

AMD Security Vulnerability – The Day After - Seems Financially Motivated - 03/14/2018 06:20 PM
It has been a day after the news broke on the acclaimed AMD Security Vulnerabilities. In this news-item, I wanted to recap and report on the current status and overview, as well as my look on things....

AMD Security Statement from CTO and SVP Mark Papermaster - 01/12/2018 03:30 PM
AMD have updated their web page and clarified a bit more on speculative_execution vulnerabilities with some additional details on current state of affairs and AMD actions....

18 pages « 2 3 4 5 > »

Kaarme
Senior Member

Posts: 3363
Joined: 2013-03-10

#5669378 Posted on: 05/15/2019 12:45 PM

ZombieLoad refers to Intel's board of directors.

lucidus
Senior Member

Posts: 11835
Joined: 2011-12-31

#5669380 Posted on: 05/15/2019 12:52 PM

Hell I'll get a PS5 and whatever good desktop cpu and chipset they have next year. Double AMD for me

Michal Turlik 21
Member

Posts: 97
Joined: 2017-08-21

#5669383 Posted on: 05/15/2019 01:04 PM

My Ryzen rocks

DeskStar
Senior Member

Posts: 1307
Joined: 2011-01-11

#5669385 Posted on: 05/15/2019 01:06 PM

PS5, new XBOX and a new smokin' Desktop!!

All within a short time here. Just broke it to the wife I'm getting a new build in the CaseLabs Magnum STH-10 with pedestal.

Come on water blocks for the new new from AMD.....

Man this is so upsetting. Just bought tablets (intel based) for the kids. Wife's laptop isn't even two years old... Som'bitch may'ne!!..!!

sdamaged99
Senior Member

Posts: 2037
Joined: 2006-12-12

#5669386 Posted on: 05/15/2019 01:07 PM

Go ahead, switch to AMD, when such overhyped vulnerabilities will easily be patched with microcode update, minimal performance impacts, it is good that research is being done on the matter, and i dont feel any less secure. With AMD you get lower per core performance, low efficiency interconnect, lower performance in games and productivity software. It is definitely not a reason to bash intel over this.

Facepalm. One of the worse CPU vulnerabilities ever found and you call it "overhyped". I assume you're one of those people that would defend Intel regardless of what they did.

AMD for me next time, no doubt about it.

18 pages « 2 3 4 5 > »

Post New Comment

Click here to post a comment for this news story on the message forum.