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Four new vulnerabilities have been identified in AMD Ryzen CPUs, but a fix available by downloading a motherboard BIOS update.
AMD has revealed that several of its Ryzen CPUs have vulnerabilities in them that could allow bad actors (and even good actors with coding skills) to gain control of your device or stop you from using it. The company has already fixed the AMD Ryzen vulnerability but you’ll want to act fast to download the latest BIOS for your motherboard to protect you and your system.
The issue, which affects the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) link between the CPU and the motherboard, doesn’t affect all AMD CPUs but is a problem for some products on our best gaming CPU guide, so most AMD Ryzen CPU users should seek to download the latest BIOS update for their motherboard.
The fixes are issued by AMD via its AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA), which is software motherboard vendors build into their BIOS/UEFI updates to ensure their boards work properly with AMD’s CPUs. However, while AMD has distributed updated AGESA versions to fix all the vulnerabilities, not all motherboards yet have a user-downloadable BIOS update that includes the AGESA fix.
Specifically, all AM5-based boards are seemingly safe already, as are TRX50 and WRX90 motherboards, with the vulnerabilities having already been remedied or not present for those boards/chips.
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AMD has revealed that several of its Ryzen CPUs have vulnerabilities in them that could allow bad actors (and even good actors with coding skills) to gain control of your device or stop you from using it. The company has already fixed the AMD Ryzen vulnerability but you’ll want to act fast to download the latest BIOS for your motherboard to protect you and your system.
The issue, which affects the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) link between the CPU and the motherboard, doesn’t affect all AMD CPUs but is a problem for some products on our best gaming CPU guide, so most AMD Ryzen CPU users should seek to download the latest BIOS update for their motherboard.
The fixes are issued by AMD via its AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA), which is software motherboard vendors build into their BIOS/UEFI updates to ensure their boards work properly with AMD’s CPUs. However, while AMD has distributed updated AGESA versions to fix all the vulnerabilities, not all motherboards yet have a user-downloadable BIOS update that includes the AGESA fix.
Specifically, all AM5-based boards are seemingly safe already, as are TRX50 and WRX90 motherboards, with the vulnerabilities having already been remedied or not present for those boards/chips.
AMD Ryzen CPUs at risk without this new BIOS fix
Four new vulnerabilities have been identified in AMD Ryzen CPUs, but a fix available by downloading a motherboard BIOS update.
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