5th-generation AMD EPYC processors are among the affected silicon. AMD/ZDNET
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This critical bug affects a large number of Zen 5 generation chips.
The issue impacts the processor's pseudorandom number generator.
AMD has fixes in the pipeline.
A Meta engineer uncovered an RDSEED bug affecting a range of AMD processors that compromises the processor's pseudorandom number generator.
The good news is that there's a fix in the works.
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The bug was uncovered by Meta engineer Gregory Price, and details were posted to a Linux kernel mailing list.
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