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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, August 17, AMD recently disclosed a newly discovered "Inception" CPU vulnerability. CTOnews.com reported earlier that this vulnerability can disclose sensitive data. AMD has recently released a patch to solve the vulnerability problem, but foreign media Phoronix found that the CPU performance of the device with the patch degraded significantly after testing the new patch a few days ago.

It is reported that all Zen CPU are affected by the Inception vulnerability, hackers can create an instruction to boot the CPU into a repeating function, resulting in CPU overflow, resulting in data disclosure.

A few days ago, AMD urgently released a patch for "Family 19" processors (that is, EPYC processors), but foreign media Phoronix found that after installing the patch, there was a significant performance degradation in "intensive computing" applications (such as MariaDB software), with a performance loss of more than 50%, indicating that the patch "seriously affected data processing-based software."

▲ diagram source Phoronix

▲ source Phoronix foreign media said that they hope that AMD can solve the vulnerability as soon as possible, while solving the performance problems caused by the patch, in order to prevent users from facing the dilemma of "vulnerability" and "performance".

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