pc gamer A security flaw leads Intel to disable DirectX 12 on its 4th Gen CPUs

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Intel has disabled DirectX 12 support on its 4th generation Haswell processors with onboard graphics due to a security vulnerability.  The vulnerability may allow escalation of privilege, or in other words, allow an unauthorized user to perform unwanted actions. 

It would seem to be a rather drastic action to disable DirectX 12 support completely, rather than issue an updated driver or patch, so it will be interesting to see if Intel makes further comment on the specifics of the vulnerability, or whether it has the potential to be exploited on other CPU generations.

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Granted these are older CPU's, but a shame to lose a whole function. 

[UltraMega]

This only affects the iGPU. Probably not a lot of people running dx12 on an old iGPU. 

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  On 08/11/2021 at 19:22, UltraMega said:

This only affects the iGPU. Probably not a lot of people running dx12 on an old iGPU. 

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Likely not indeed, so it is not what is considered a huge loss. Though yet another security hit for Intel. 

[UltraMega]

  On 08/11/2021 at 19:23, ENTERPRISE said:

 

Likely not indeed, so it is not what is considered a huge loss. Though yet another security hit for Intel. 

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Yea good point. Just to play devil's advocate though, can you really blame Intel for a security flaw in an API that came out way later than the hardware in question? 

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  On 08/11/2021 at 20:02, UltraMega said:

Yea good point. Just to play devil's advocate though, can you really blame Intel for a security flaw in an API that came out way later than the hardware in question? 

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That is true. Call it 50/50 blame lol.

[Sir Beregond]

I'm still on my 4790k, but definitely don't use the iGPU lol.