A curious Microsoft employee has saved the world from a potential global meltdown as several Linux distros were found vulnerable to an XZ backdoor tracked under CVE-2024-3094 (CVSS score of 10.0).
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AMD's fTPM had been causing stuttering and freezing issues first on Windows, and then on Linux too. As such, Linux boss Linus Torvalds has now suggested disabling fTPM entirely on Ryzen.
The fTPM bug which was causing stuttering and freezing issues on AMD Ryzen CPUs in Windows 11 and Windows 10 has now started affecting Linux as well. The bug was triggered after a Linux 6.1 patch.
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A recent Linux kernel update version 5.19.12 is creating havoc in the Linux community. The update is messing up things in Intel's graphics driver and it can even lead to screen damage, warns engineer.
AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature will remain disabled by default in future Ryzen-based Linux PCs. That's because the feature has been found to be very problematic on some of those systems.
Samsung's 860 and 870 SATA SSDs have been causing issues for a while on Linux and it has been determined that NCQ and queued Trim commands are to blame. The problem is especially bad on older AMD PCs.
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