DRAM Rowhammer exploits

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Mon Mar 9 20:14:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, 9 Mar 2015, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> >any thoughts we're vulnerable to this?
> 
> It's a hardware problem, *everybody* are vulnerable.

Well, it seems I used somewhat incorrect wordings.

Any chance we could provide workaround like for Pentium f00f bug?

Actually I doubt it as cache flush commands do not seem to be avoidable -- but 
I would like to hear from real security experts....

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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