[Novalug] Ouch! Google crocks capacitors and deviates DRAM to root Linux • The Register

Igor Birman igor_birman@yahoo.com
Wed Mar 11 08:23:25 EDT 2015


Someone should incorporate this code into MemTest86, I suspect lots of people will be sending their RAM back under warranty.
Igor 

     On Wednesday, March 11, 2015 7:23 AM, Kevin Cole via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
   

 Software intentionally damaging hardware to crack software. Rapid
overwriting of memory to generate capacitor problems, and introduce memory
errors in order to root Linux.

#rowhammer #linux #security

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/10/rowhammer/
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