AMD Patches Vulnerability That Allowed Loading of Malicious Microcode
52/68 Thursday, February 6, 2025 AMD has released a patch to address CVE-2024-56161 (CVSS score: 7.2), a vulnerability discovered by researchers from Google. This flaw allowed attackers with administrative privileges to load malicious microcode into the CPU, impacting Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, which protects virtual machine (VM) memory from unauthorized access. The vulnerability stemmed […]