Microsoft patches 34 vulnerabilities, including one zero-day

December’s Patch Tuesday is a relatively quiet one on the Microsoft front. Redmond has patched 34 vulnerabilities with only four rated as critical. One vulnerability, a previously disclosed unpatched vulnerability in AMD central processing units (CPUs), was shifted by AMD to software developers.

The AMD vulnerability sounds like something from back in the eighties:

“A division by zero error on some AMD processors can potentially return speculative data resulting in loss of confidentiality.”

And AMD’s mitigation advice basically boils down …

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