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Re: AMD crash bug



IMO giving an ID to vulnerable microcode fits the goals of the CVE, both
originally and now.  Lovely catch, Kurt.

Pascal

On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 00:43 +0000, Landfield, Kent B wrote:
> I agree. This seems to be in need of a CVE. Is AMD aware of it?
>
> Kent Landfield
> +1.817.637.8026
>
> On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:34 PM, Kurt Seifried
> <kurt@seifried.org<mailto:kurt@seifried.org>> wrote:
>
> So a Linux/Windows kernel crash triggered by a normal user would get
> a CVE. Why doesn't this get a CVE? Especially as it's fixable with a
> microcode update...
>
> http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=167605
> http://forum.hwbot.org/showpost.php?p=480524
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924192
>
> I think we need to cover hardware cases where it bricks/crashes the
> system/hardware at a minimum.
>
> Also I always thought AMD was a CNA, but they're not?
>
> --
> Kurt Seifried
> kurt@seifried.org<mailto:kurt@seifried.org>


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