Amd claims that its processors are not affected by spoilers

A few weeks ago it was learned of the existence of a new vulnerability called SPOILER that affected those Intel Core chips.

SPILER is a vulnerability that only affects Intel processors

In this situation, AMD has published an article confirming that its chips should be immune to "SPOILER", a new vulnerability in processors that was discovered by computer scientists from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Lubeck . As explained in their article, SPOILER takes advantage of "a weakness in Intel's memory subsystem address speculation. " This makes it easy to perform memory attacks like "Rowhammer", but obviously only users with an Intel CPU should be concerned.

AMD clarifies that its processors are not affected

We are aware of the report of a new security exploit called SPOILER that can access partial address information during loading operations. We believe that our products are not susceptible to this problem due to our unique processor architecture. The SPOILER exploit can access partial address information above address bit 11 during load operations. We believe that our products are not susceptible to this problem because AMD processors do not use partial address matches in bit 11 to resolve load conflicts.

In this way, AMD completely dismisses the fact that SPOILER affects its processor architecture, because they simply do not work in the same way as an Intel Core at the process level and how the information is interpreted.

We don't know how dangerous this can be in case a hacker wants to exploit the vulnerability. At the moment, no attacks have been reported taking advantage of this nor do we know when it can be solved by Intel.

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