News Intel Discloses Hidden Security Flaw in Latest Arc Alchemist GPUs

[Admin]

Intel Arc A770 and A750 vulnerabilities allow authenticated users to enable denial of service or information disclosure.

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[Sleepy_Hollowed]

I'm starting to think that I'll have my gaming machines do nothing but gaming, this is getting a bit ridiculous.

Nvidia has had a string of security issues on their drivers throughout the years as well.

 

[edzieba]

Arc A770 and Arc A750 graphics cards sold between October and December 2022

That's.... really odd. Unless they had 3 die revisions within as many months rolling out of the fabs, then the vulnerability would either be a microcode issue (and thus should be patchable as a BIOS revision), or some bizarre timing bug that only triggers with some combination of edge-case board components.

 

[thisisaname]

That's.... really odd. Unless they had 3 die revisions within as many months rolling out of the fabs, then the vulnerability would either be a microcode issue (and thus should be patchable as a BIOS revision), or some bizarre timing bug that only triggers with some combination of edge-case board components.

I found that odd too as it would be the date it was manufactured rather than the date it was sold.


Edit: Did they recall all unsold stock when they released the new revision?

 

[purpleduggy]

these exploits are dangerous and all, but less than 1% of people are capable of using them against you, and those people won't be stopped if they want some data you have, even if you patch it. they'll find another way. all this is going to do is lower performance on systems. The first thing I do on any system is remove the spectre and meltdown patches because the patch causes a significant performance hit. people are naive when it comes to exploits. no one is gonna rely on an exploit to get your data if they want it, they'll use far easier means like social engineering. nice naive idea but doesn't work.