Edit 8/12/2024 4:45am PT: The researchers who discovered the flaw in AMD's chips contend that the vulnerability impacts all AMD chips extending back to 2006. However, AMD has not listed Ryzen and Threadripper 1000 and 2000 and other previously released products as impacted by the vulnerability. We are following up for further details regarding the disparity.
AMD processors dating back to 2006, reportedly numbering in the hundreds of millions of chips, suffer from a major security flaw that allows attackers to infiltrate a system virtually undetectable. AMD Product Security has since released updates for several processor families to mitigate this issue, but not all of them will be covered. According to a statement given to Tom's Hardware, AMD said, "There are some older products that are outside our software support window." AMD has no plans to update its older Ryzen 3000 series processors, and it is possible that the vulnerability extends back further than the processors listed in AMD's advisory. We're following up for more details.
