Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed

The buzzword bug of the week is Zenbleed, which affects various AMD processors and is explained in more detail here.

On OpenBSD, the latest -current snapshots already have the fixes, and errata patches will go out for the supported releases (7.2 and 7.3) shortly.

In a post to the tech@ list, Theo de Raadt described the situation:

List:       openbsd-tech
Subject:    Zenbleed
From:       "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt () openbsd ! org>
Date:       2023-07-24 16:11:45

Zenbleed errata for 7.2 and 7.3 will come out soon.

sysupgrade of the -current snapshot already contains a fix.

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