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AMD SEV Vulnerability Allows Malicious CPU Microcode Injection as Admin

AMD disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-56161) in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, allowing attackers with administrative access to inject malicious CPU microcode, compromising virtual machine confidentiality and integrity. This issue, stemming from improper signature verification, affects multiple AMD processor generations and has a CVSS score of 7.2. Firmware and BIOS updates are available to address the vulnerability.

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