How much/what hardware does the rowhammer DRAM bug affects?

Georgi Guninski guninski@guninski.com
Wed Sep 16 02:01:05 PDT 2015


This is old, but haven't seen it here.

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html


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Rowhammer” is a problem with some recent DRAM devices in which
repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent
rows.
It was able to use this to gain write access to its own page table, and
hence gain read-write access to all of physical memory.
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There is POC.

Variant via javascript:

https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs

How much/what hardware does this bug affect?



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