Row-hammer is hardware bug that can cause bit-flips in physical RAM. Mark Seaborn and Thomas Dullien were the first to exploit the DRAM row-hammer bug to gain kernel privileges. Kaveh Razavi et al. pushed the exploitation of row-hammer bugs to the next level. They abused an OS feature – memory...
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