ETH Zurich
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AMD issues fixes for ‘RMPocalypse’ flaw that can break SEV‑SNP protections
AMD has released fixes for a vulnerability termed RMPocalypse that researchers say can let a malicious hypervisor corrupt the Reverse Map Paging table during initialization and defeat SEV‑SNP protections; AMD has assigned CVE‑2025‑0033 and lists affected EPYC processors.
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ETH Zurich researchers reveal Phoenix DDR5 Rowhammer defeats TRR, enabling privilege escalation on commodity systems
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Google have disclosed Phoenix, a DDR5 Rowhammer variant that bypasses TRR protections and enables privilege escalation on commodity systems within minutes, affecting most DDR5 modules produced between 2021 and 2024. The work includes a proof-of-concept showing root access and other exploits, and provides links to the technical paper and a…
