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AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed

Posted by timothy on from the hey-man-we've-all-got-problems dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CERT/CC has called out AMD for having insecure video drivers. AMD/ATI video drivers are incompatible with system-wide ASLR. 'Always On' DEP combined with 'Always On' ASLR are effective exploit mitigations. However, most people don't know about 'Always On' ASLR since Microsoft had to hide it from EMET with an 'EnableUnsafeSettings' registry key — because AMD/ATI video drivers will cause a BSOD on boot if 'Always On' ASLR is enabled."

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  1. Everything is insecure by Khyber · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing is secure. Man can make it, man can break it. This is yet another proof of that concept.

    To think otherwise is sheer stupidity.

    Oh, wait, this is CERT we're talking about. Stupidity comes from them in spades. Let's audit all of their systems, bet you 10,000,000:1 they're just as insecure as the stuff they're claiming is insecure.

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    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.