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Comment by eric__cartman

This is incredibly scary. On my Zen 2 box (Ryzen 3600) logging the output of the exploit running as an unprivileged user while copying and pasting a string into a text editor in the background (I used Kate), resulted in pieces of the string being logged into the output of zenbleed. And this is after a few seconds of runtime mind you, not even a full minute.

Thankfully the exploit is highly dependent on a specific asm routine so exploiting it from JS or WASM in a browser should be extremely difficult. Otherwise a nefarious tab left open for hours in the background could exfiltrate without an issue.

I'm eagerly waiting for Fedora maintainers to push the new microcode so the kernel can update it during the boot process.

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