Vulnerability Bulletins |
Row Hammer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
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| Affected software | Cisco |
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On March 9, 2015, new research was published that takes advantage of a flaw in double data rate type 3 (DDR3) synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) to perform privilege escalation attacks on systems that contain the affected hardware. The flaw is known as Row Hammer. To attempt an attack, the attacker must execute a malicious binary on an affected system.In addition, the research focused on consumer hardware that did not have a number of mitigations and memory protections that have More info: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150309-rowhammer?vs_f=Cisco%20Security%20Advisory&vs_cat=Security%20Intelligence&vs_type=RSS&vs_p=Row%20Hammer%20Privilege%20Escalation%20Vulnerability&vs_k=1 |
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