Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug to Gain Kernel Privileges

Mark Seaborn (via Collin Allen): “Rowhammer” is a problem with some recent DRAM devices in which repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows. We tested a selection of laptops and found that a subset of them exhibited the problem. We built two working privilege escalation exploits that use this … Continue reading Exploiting the DRAM Rowhammer Bug to Gain Kernel Privileges