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'Rowhammer' attack flips bits in memory to root Linux

Paul Shirley

@thames

It probably can be fixed in firmware by adding the right guard pages around critical structures but knowing where those pages need to be will require ram manufacturers input, component databases in each os and probably won't happen.

What's more likely is they'll need to reduce power saving tweaks (like under volting and reduced refresh rates) and everyone gets lower battery life on their laptops. No idea why they think more than a tiny minority of desktop machine are using ECC.

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