AMD Is Being Sued Over Spectre Vulnerabilities

After it was clear that AMD is also being vulnerable to spectre, two law firms have have just announced they are intending to a file class-action lawsuits against AMD.

Meet Meltdown & Spectre Google's Project Zero

Meet Meltdown & Spectre
Google’s Project Zero

After it was clear that AMD is also being vulnerable to spectre, two law firms have have just announced they are intending to a file class-action lawsuits against AMD. They claim the company failed to disclose knowledge of its products’ Spectre vulnerability.

The Meltdown/Spectre issue in computers is still hanging above the computer industry’s head as affected hardware OEMs continue to push out patches, updates and fices. Now after all the drama at the beginning and fluctuations in stock market, we have a much clearer picture of these three vulnerabilities that made the issue and how they’re being fixed by google and the companies.

“While we believe that AMD’s processor architectures make it difficult to exploit Variant 2, we continue to work closely with the industry on this threat,” AMD’s CTO said.

Zen-based CPUs (Ryzen and Threadripper) from AMD are among those that are partially affected and mostly by spectre not meltdown. Of the three vulnerabilities, the company said from the beginning that its CPUs did not suffer from Meltdown. And the confusion was around Spectre. The company first claimed, and continues to maintain, that it’s vulnerable to Spectre Variant 1, which is patched at the OS level. As for Spectre Variant 2, however, AMD’s initial statement was that there was “near-zero risk of exploitation” on its CPUs; it later stated that it had issued “optional” CPU microcode updates for the vulnerability.

Nvidia also made it clear in a statement earlier that the nvidia GPUs themselves are not susceptible to the Meltdown or Spectre attacks. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, said:

Our GPUs are immune, they are not affected by these security issues. What we did was released driver updates to patch CPU security vulnerabilities. We are patching the CPU vulnerabilities in the same way Amazon will, Epic, and Microsoft, because we have software, too.

Anyone who writes software has to patch. So we have to patch our drivers to patch the CPU vulnerabilities. I am absolutely certain our GPU is not affected.

Tags: technology, amd, amd spectre, Spectre Vulnerabilities, amd Spectre Vulnerabilities

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