AMD fixes a critical security vulnerability that affects Zen 5 CPUs with BIOS AGESA 1.2.0.3c

If we are going to buy a new PC or upgrade ours with new components, you will have run into the doubt whether to choose Intel, NVIDIA or AMD on graphics cards and processors. In the end these two components are the most important on a computer, but luckily today any of these brands are competent in a given price range. As for processors the similarity is even greater between AMD and Intel unless your priority is to play video games and in that c…

There's another quiet rumble in the underground of AGESA versions – this time with version number 1.2.0.3C, a patch that doesn't deal with performance gimmicks or RAM compatibility, but with something much more serious: a security vulnerability in microcode signature verification. The whole thing wasn't discovered internally at AMD, but by security researchers at Google. And when a company like [...] Source