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Rowhammer variant RAMBleed allows attackers to steal secrets from RAM

Researchers have devised a new attack that allows unprivileged code running on computers to steal secrets stored in what should be protected memory regions. The attack is possible because of a known design issue exploited in the past to modify protected data. Using the new technique, the researchers were able to extract an RSA 2048-bit signing key from an OpenSSH server using code running with user-level privileges. RAMBleed is a variation of another attack called Rowhammer that has been known for several years and which exploits the increased cell density in modern SDRAM memory chips.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3402556/rowhammer-variant-rambleed-allows-attackers-to-steal-secrets-from-ram.html

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