Rowhammer

Intel-compatible PCs running Linux are exploitable through the physical weaknesses in certain varieties of DDR DRAM (double data rate dynamic random-access memory) chips and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system.

Google’s Project Zero has released an in-depth article on how to exploit the DRAM Rowhammer.

The rowhammer-test program is available here.

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