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

Georgi Guninski guninski at guninski.com
Fri Sep 18 22:40:28 PDT 2015


On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:11:00AM -0700, The Doctor wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:12:36 +0100
> Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
> 
> > possible. Browser model, JS engine, hardware acceleration options, 
> > possibly firmwares, and DRAM model/generation/clockspeed.
> > No reason to be complacent, but the gist was "you probably don't need to 
> > worry about rowhammer-JS".
> 
> It makes one wonder how well it works in the context of node.js, which seems to be the darling of developers the world over these days.
>

http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06955

Rowhammer.js: A Remote Software-Induced Fault Attack in JavaScript

p.2
We compared our implementations of the Rowhammer
attack on the three different machines shown in Table I.

(gives explicit models).





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