AMD in an announcement confirmed that its processors are unaffected by the RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load) and Fallout vulnerabilities. The firm nevertheless worded its assertion in CYA language, simply to be secure. “…we believe our products are not susceptible to ‘Fallout’ or ‘RIDL’ 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,” reads the AMD assertion put out late Tuesday (14th May).
AMD got here to those conclusions on the idea of its personal testing and discussions with the researchers who found RIDL. It’s necessary to notice right here, that the “Fallout” vulnerability AMD is referring to on this assertion is the one which is a part of 4 MDS vulnerabilities Intel disclosed yesterday, and never the identically named “Fallout” vulnerability found by CTS Labs in 2018, allegedly affecting safe reminiscence administration of AMD “Zen” processors.
