Randomized row-swap: Mitigating row hammer by breaking spatial correlation between aggressor and victim rows

G Saileshwar, B Wang, M Qureshi, PJ Nair - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Row Hammer is a fault-injection attack in which rapid activations to a single DRAM row
causes bit-flips in nearby rows. Several recent defenses propose tracking aggressor-rows …

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) …

Hammerscope: Observing dram power consumption using rowhammer

Y Cohen, KS Tharayil, A Haenel, D Genkin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The constant reduction in memory cell sizes has increased memory density and reduced
power consumption, but has also affected its reliability. The Rowhammer attack exploits this …

Moesi-prime: preventing coherence-induced hammering in commodity workloads

K Loughlin, S Saroiu, A Wolman, YA Manerkar… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Prior work shows that Rowhammer attacks---which flip bits in DRAM via frequent activations
of the same row (s)---are viable. Adversaries typically mount these attacks via instruction …

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] Panopticon: A complete in-dram rowhammer mitigation

T Bennett, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Workshop on DRAM …, 2021 - alecw.azurewebsites.net
The shortcomings of previous Rowhammer mitigations prevent their adoption in practice.
Their implementations either need significant amounts of fast memory, such as CAM or …

Safeguard: Reducing the security risk from row-hammer via low-cost integrity protection

A Fakhrzadehgan, YN Patt, PJ Nair… - … Symposium on High …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Row-Hammer (RH) is a DRAM data-disturbance failure that occurs when a row is activated
frequently, which causes bit-flips in nearby rows. Row-Hammer is a significant security threat …

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 …

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 …