DRAM Rowhammer exploits

Bakul Shah bakul at bitblocks.com
Mon Mar 9 20:29:16 UTC 2015


On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:52:04 -0000 "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1503092248580.38285 at woozle.rinet.ru>, Dmitry Moro
> zo
> vsky writes:
> >Dear colleagues,
> >
> >any thoughts we're vulnerable to this?
> 
> It's a hardware problem, *everybody* are vulnerable.

I guess manufacturer memory testing hasn't kept up to deal
with shrinking geometries.... 

Hopefully ECC memory protects against such exploits (at least
makes them a lot less vulnerable).


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