Intel bug report points finger at AMD for a chunk of GPU vulnerabilities

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Intel recently published its 2021 Product Security Report, and it's a doozy. The report dives into all the bugs, vulnerabilities, and more that impacted Intel's products across the year, and from a numbers perspective, there are a lot of interesting figures to note. Most of all, though, it's a glimpse of how Intel stacks up versus AMD when it comes to 'whose products are safer than whose', and how Intel and AMD's brief comradeship may have led to the largest weak spot in both companies' armour.

In 2021, Intel reported a total of 226 vulnerabilities in its product stack, ranging from bugs in ethernet products to FPGAs and everything in between. The majority of these bugs were discovered by Intel, though bug bounty programs and other organisations account for a hefty number of the vulnerabilities reported.

The single largest source of these vulnerabilities are Intel's GPU products, which totalled 52 in 2021. Then it's a tie between ethernet products and software for second, both claiming 34 bugs throughout the year.

If you dive further into Intel's GPU vulnerability stats, however, and duly noted by our friends at Tom's Hardware, you'll find that a large number of its GPU vulnerabilities are related to just a handful of processors: 8th Gen Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega graphics. 

And that more than half of Intel's GPU vulnerabilities were in fact reported in AMD's software.

This stems from a brief stint of cooperation between Intel and AMD, in which Intel provided its Kaby Lake Core CPU architecture alongside AMD-provided Radeon RX Vega M graphics. The resulting Kaby Lake G chips formed the basis for a handful of products when they were released in 2018, though the big one of interest is the Intel Hades Canyon