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1*48d6e6abSAndy FiddamanIn 2025, AMD made changes to their microcode signature verification following
2*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamanpublication of CVE-2024-36347.
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4*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamanhttps://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7033.html
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6*48d6e6abSAndy FiddamanAs a result it is not possible to install the latest microcode release on
7*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamansystems which have not had their platform image (usually included with BIOS)
8*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamanupdated.
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10*48d6e6abSAndy FiddamanThis directory contains older versions of microcode for affected systems,
11*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamanwhich is used as a fallback when the latest microcode is not accepted by
12*48d6e6abSAndy Fiddamanthe CPU.
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