By Ionut Arghire on June 29, 2018 A team of researchers from universities worldwide have devised a new set of DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against the latest Android OS, along with a lightweight defense to prevent such attacks on ARM-based devices.
Rowhammer is a vulnerability impacting dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips that can be abused to gain kernel privileges on Linux systems. Discovered in 2012 but documented only in 2014, the bug can also be exploited remotely using JavaScript or via graphics processing units (GPUs).
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Researchers Devise Rowhammer Attacks Against Latest Android Versions
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