AMD/ATI video drivers: Unsafe at any Speed

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07, 2012 @10:02AM

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. Do you care about system security? You might want to buy an Intel or NVIDIA video card instead."

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AMD needs better management. (Score:2)

by Futurepower(R) (558542) writes:

I hope this story helps get better management at AMD.

Also, I thought Intel stopped making video cards many years ago. Now Intel graphics is integrated into motherboards.

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AMD/ATI video drivers: Unsafe at any Speed

AMD needs better management. (Score:2)