DRAM Rowhammer exploits

[Karl Denninger]

On 3/9/2015 14:52, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1503092248580.38285 at woozle.rinet.ru>, Dmitry Morozo
> vsky writes:
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> any thoughts we're vulnerable to this?
> It's a hardware problem, *everybody* are vulnerable.
>
And.... this is why (among other reasons) you run ECC memory!

Note that privilege escalation is not your only problem; corruption of 
data headed to the disk, specifically with filesystems like ZFS, in many 
ways can be worse because that can result in corruption that the system 
CANNOT detect.

-- 
Karl Denninger
karl at denninger.net <mailto:karl at denninger.net>
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