AMD has confirmed the existence of RDSEED failure on CPUs based on its latest Zen 5 architecture, a critical data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security vulnerability in its hardware-based random number generator. The company has confirmed the fault could lead to the random number generator putting out keys that aren’t fully unpredictable, opening up a vulnerability to users.
AMD is labeling the fault data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7055.html” data-url=”https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7055.html” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>”AMD-SB-7055″ and classifying it as a high-severity issue. Mitigations for the issues are rolling out now through January 2026, depending…
