Rowhammer
2015-03-10 00:17:31.115789+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges.
We tested a selection of x86 laptops that were readily available to us (all with non-ECC memory) using CLFLUSH with the “random address selection” approach above. We found that a large subset of these machines exhibited rowhammer-induced bit flips. The results are shown in the table below.
More reason to fear your computer... And to spring for ECC RAM on your servers.