Sujet : Google hacks Zen 2 to 4 microcode
De : tkoenig (at) *nospam* netcologne.de (Thomas Koenig)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 18. Apr 2025, 22:48:19
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The microcode of the Zen 2 to Zen 4 processors has been hacked by
security people from Google:
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hackingApart from breaking getting updates past AMD's signature
verificiation process, they also created a toolbox for
playing around with the microcode. There is also quite
some information on the internal microcode format at
https://github.com/google/security-research/blob/master/pocs/cpus/entrysign/zentool/