Fundamentally understanding and solving rowhammer

O Mutlu, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkcı - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer
vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which …

Scalable and secure row-swap: Efficient and safe row hammer mitigation in memory systems

J Woo, G Saileshwar, PJ Nair - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAM) scale, they are becoming increasingly
susceptible to Row Hammer. By rapidly activating rows of DRAM cells (aggressor rows) …

Aqua: Scalable rowhammer mitigation by quarantining aggressor rows at runtime

A Saxena, G Saileshwar, PJ Nair… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rowhammer allows an attacker to induce bit flips in a row by rapidly accessing neighboring
rows. Rowhammer is a severe security threat as it can be used to escalate privilege or break …

DRAM bender: An extensible and versatile FPGA-based infrastructure to easily test state-of-the-art DRAM chips

A Olgun, H Hassan, AG Yağlıkçı… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security, and energy efficiency,
prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art …

[PDF][PDF] Copy-on-Flip: Hardening ECC Memory Against Rowhammer Attacks.

A Di Dio, K Koning, H Bos, C Giuffrida - NDSS, 2023 - ndss-symposium.org
Despite nearly decade-long mitigation efforts in academia and industry, the community is yet
to find a practical solution to the Rowhammer vulnerability. Comprehensive software …

Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer

K Loughlin, J Rosenblum, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's cloud DRAM lacks strong isolation primitives, highlighted by Rowhammer bit flips.
Rowhammer poses an increasing threat to cloud security/reliability, given (1) DRAM …

PrIDE: Achieving Secure Rowhammer Mitigation with Low-Cost In-DRAM Trackers

A Jaleel, G Saileshwar, SW Keckler… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rowhammer-induced bit-flips are a threat to DRAM security. To mitigate Rowhammer,
DDR4 devices employ TRR, an in-DRAM tracker, to identify aggressor rows. In-DRAM …

SpyHammer: Using RowHammer to remotely spy on temperature

L Orosa, U Rührmair, AG Yağlikçi, H Luo… - …, 2022 - research-collection.ethz.ch
RowHammer is a DRAM vulnerability that can cause bit errors in a victim DRAM row by just
accessing its neighboring DRAM rows at a high-enough rate. Recent studies demonstrate …

CoMeT: Count-Min-Sketch-based Row Tracking to Mitigate RowHammer at Low Cost

FN Bostanci, ISE Yüksel, A Olgun… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM chips are increasingly more vulnerable to read-disturbance phenomena (eg,
RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing DRAM rows causes bitflips in …

Exploring the Horizon: A Comprehensive Survey of Rowhammer

A Naseredini - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06950, 2023 - arxiv.org
Rowhammer poses a significant security challenge for modern computers, specifically
affecting Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). Given society's growing reliance on …