New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses Rowhammer Defenses on AMD CPUs

Cybersecurity researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new variant of the RowHammer DRAM dynamic random-access memory attack that, for the first time, successfully works against AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite mitigations such as Target Row Refresh TRR. "This result proves that AMD system...

K60570139: Rowhammer hardware vulnerability CVE-2020-10255

Security Advisory Description Modern DRAM chips DDR4 and LPDDR4 after 2015 are affected by a vulnerability in deployment of internal mitigations against RowHammer attacks known as Target Row Refresh TRR, aka the TRRespass issue. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs to create certain...

SUSE CVE-2020-10255

Modern DRAM chips DDR4 and LPDDR4 after 2015 are affected by a vulnerability in deployment of internal mitigations against RowHammer attacks known as Target Row Refresh TRR, aka the TRRespass issue. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs to create certain access patterns to trigger bit...

New Rowhammer Technique

Rowhammer is an attack technique involving accessing -- thats "hammering" -- rows of bits in memory, millions of times per second, with the intent of causing bits in neighboring rows to flip. This is a side-channel attack, and the result can be all sorts of mayhem. Well, there is a new enhancemen...

New Blacksmith Exploit Bypasses Current Rowhammer Attack Defenses

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated yet another variation of the Rowhammer attack affecting all DRAM dynamic random-access memory chips that bypasses currently deployed mitigations, thereby effectively compromising the security of the devices. The new technique — dubbed "Blacksmith"...

CVE-2021-42114

A Rowhammer flaw was found in the latest DDR4 DRAM hardware chips. This flaw is different from the previously known attack CVE-2020-10255 by non-uniform patterns of memory access. These DDR4 DRAM hardware chips implement a Target Row Refresh TRR mitigation to prevent a Rowhammer flaw-induced bit...

CVE-2021-42114

CVE-2021-42114 (Blacksmith) affects modern DRAM (PC‑DDR4, LPDDR4X) where TRR mitigations can be bypassed by non‑uniform memory access patterns. ETH Zurich et al. demonstrated a fuzzer (Blacksmith) that triggered bit flips across 40 DRAM devices from major vendors (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron), enab...

Google Researchers Discover A New Variant of Rowhammer Attack

A team of security researchers from Google has demonstrated yet another variant of the Rowhammer vulnerability that targets increasingly smaller DRAM chips to bypass all current mitigations, making it a persistent threat to chip security. Dubbed "Half-Double," the new hammering technique hinges o...

CVE-2020-10255

Modern DRAM chips DDR4 and LPDDR4 after 2015 are affected by a vulnerability in deployment of internal mitigations against RowHammer attacks known as Target Row Refresh TRR, aka the TRRespass issue. To exploit this vulnerability, the attacker needs to create certain access patterns to trigger bit...

CVE-2020-10255

The CVE-2020-10255/TRRRespass issue affects modern memory (DDR4/LPDDR4 after 2015) where Target Row Refresh mitigations can be bypassed by rowhammer patterns. Documents in connected sources confirm this can allow privilege escalation, kernel/Sudo compromise, and cross-tenant VM access via bit fli...