Rowhammer
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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…
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NVIDIA Alerts Users on Rowhammer Vulnerability Affecting GDDR6 GPUs
NVIDIA is warning users to enable System Level ECC to mitigate the risk of Rowhammer attacks on GPUs with GDDR6 memory, following recent research demonstrating the vulnerability on the A6000 model.
