News AMD Zenbleed Vulnerability Fix Tested: Some Apps Drop 15%, Gaming Unaffected

[Admin]

We tested a software patch for the Zenbleed vulnerability to measure the performance impact in both gaming and productivity applications.

AMD Zenbleed Vulnerability Fix Tested: Some Apps Drop 15%, Gaming Unaffected : Read more

 

[Makaveli]

"The Zenbleed flaw (CVE-2023-20593) spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs"

Just to make it more clear this is Zen 2 5000 chips not Zen 3

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

"The Zenbleed flaw (CVE-2023-20593) spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs"

Just to make it more clear this is Zen 2 5000 chips not Zen 3

Yup! Only the U series 5000, which aren't Zen 3. Good spot!

 

[ezst036]

Where can I go to see what vulnerabilities are fixed in hardware? - so they do not require these costly software fixes anymore? Is there any website out there which lists these vulnerabilities, perhaps in a table format?

 

[drajitsh]

Thanks for covering security so well. This along with guides is the main thing keeping me checking the site on a daily basis.

 

[dmitche3]

My question is, since I really don't care to make this patch on my AMD systerm, how can I avoid having this patched? Will it be a Microsoft behidn the scenes or a MOBO mfg update?

 

[ghedepere]

This smells kind of fake, or blown out of proportion like intel and AMD both had fake vulnerabities spun up after spectre and meltdown to affect share price and manipulate the stock market.

This is even more suspect when people urge you to update, even if you are not affected.
This updating for the sake of updating, not reading release notes and just accepting things blindly has to stop, it's paving the way for some very cheap planned software obsolescence through performance reductions and functionality removals.

Curious to see the answers to others' questions about where to find info in a table for all vulnerabilities that are being patches through microcode and their impact, as well as how to tell the OS is going to push for a microcode update or not.

 

[JakeTheMate]

My question is, since I really don't care to make this patch on my AMD systerm, how can I avoid having this patched? Will it be a Microsoft behidn the scenes or a MOBO mfg update?

Microsoft patched this on last "Patch Tuesday", so anybody with an up to date Win10/11 system should no longer vulnerable. Don't know if that helps with avoiding the patch.