AMD and Intel patch dozens of vulnerabilities on February 2024 Patch Tuesday, including multiple high-severity bugs.
February 14, 2024 By Ionut Arghire
Chipmakers AMD and Intel on Tuesday announced patches for a total of over 100 vulnerabilities, including 21 high-severity bugs leading to privilege escalation, code execution, or denial-of-service (DoS).
AMD published five advisories detailing vulnerabilities in embedded processors, processors, SEV firmware, and UltraScale and UltraScale+ FPGA series devices.
The chipmaker addressed 20 bugs in its embedded processors, including seven high-severity flaws caused by improper parameter handlings, insufficient protections, insufficient checks, improper access controls, and failed validations, which could lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution.
AMD also announced patches for four other high-severity vulnerabilities in its processors, which could lead to privilege escalation, DoS, arbitrary code execution, or protection bypass. Some of the issues, AMD says, were likely found on machines running outdated firmware or software.