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Posthammer: Pervasive Browser-Based Rowhammer Attacks (ethz.ch)
2 points by pjattke 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Rowhammer is back in the browser!

At #USENIXSecurity25, we present Posthammer, the first pervasive browser-based Rowhammer attack using non-uniform Rowhammer patterns in JavaScript.

The key ideas:

• Refresh postponement delays DRAM refreshes to make hammering more effective.

• Lanes craft non-uniform Rowhammer patterns from minimal eviction sets.

The result? 61% of DDR4 devices can be compromised from JavaScript!

More information: https://comsec.ethz.ch/posthammer




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