Arrr, some swashbucklin' AMD Zen 2 CPUs be gettin' defenses against the treacherous Zenbleed security flaw - 'bout time, mateys!
2024-05-03
Fret ye not, me hearties! The dreaded Zenbleed may have caused a few jitters among the landlubbers, but fear not, for the Ryzen 4000 brethren can rest easy. 'Tis but a storm in a teacup, a mere blip on the radar of our mighty vessel. Hoist the sails and sail on!
Arr matey! Some AMD Zen 2 chips be in need of a security patch to protect against them scurvy Zenbleed attacks, but fear not, for those swashbucklers with MSI motherboards be finally receiving a firmware update to patch up their defenses!This here be a BIOS update with AMD’s AM4 AGESA 1.2.0.Ca, packin' mitigations against Zenbleed for them Ryzen 4000 APUs from the Renoir family. So if ye be sailin' with one of them Ryzen 4000 processors on an MSI motherboard with the AM4 chipset, ye best be grabbin' this firmware update quicker than ye can say "Ahoy!"The patch be rollin' out as we speak, available for almost every MSI X570 motherboard and makin' its way to other boards like the B550, but it may take a bit longer for those to receive it. This vulnerability, CVE-2023-20593, may be rated as "medium" in severity, but it could let them scallywags potentially access sensitive information on your PC, which be no good at all, ye hear?It be a long journey to get these patches rolled out, with defenses for previous Zen 2 CPUs implemented some time ago. Now that Ryzen 4000 chips be gettin' their protection, it be coverin' all bases, except for them certain Ryzen embedded chips. But fear not, for the fix be on its way for them too, and even them stubborn motherboard vendors like Gigabyte should be pushin' out this update soon enough. No reason to delay any further, me hearties!