Row Hammer Privilege Escalation

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-2015-009 Potential Impact: Escalation of Privilege Severity: Medium Summary: The Passgate issue aka “Row Hammer” is an inherent design/process limitation in memory for sub 40nm technology such as DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR2/LPDDR3/GDDR5 that can cause errors in rows of memory...

Mac OS X Multiple EFI Vulnerabilities (EFI Security Update 2015-001)

The remote Mac OS X host is running EFI firmware that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An insufficient locking issue exists, when resuming from sleep states, which allows a local attacker to write to the EFI flash memory by using an crafted application with root privileges. CVE-2015-36...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

Memory corruption

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001, as used in OS X before 10.10.4 and other products, does not properly set refresh rates for DDR3 RAM, which might make it easier for remote attackers to conduct row-hammer attacks, and consequently gain privileges or cause a denial of service memory corruption, by...

CVE-2015-3693

Apple Mac EFI before 2015-001 on OS X versions including pre-10.10.4 is affected by a rowhammer‑style memory corruption issue (CVE-2015-3693) caused by insufficient DDR3 memory refresh handling. This could enable remote attackers to cause memory corruption and gain privileges or trigger a denial ...

Row Hammer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

On March 9, 2015, new research was published that takes advantage of a flaw in double data rate type 3 DDR3 synchronous dynamic random-access memory SDRAM to perform privilege escalation attacks on systems that contain the affected hardware. The flaw is known as Row Hammer. To attempt an attack,...