Nethammer

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Nethammer – Exploiting Rowhammer attack through network without a single attacker-controlled line of code

Nethammer attack technique is the first truly remote Rowhammer attack that doesn’t require a single attacker-controlled line of code on the targeted system. A few days ago security experts announced the first network-based remote Rowhammer attack, dubbed Throwhammer. The attack exploits a known vulnerability in DRAM through network cards using remote direct memory access (RDMA) channels. Rowhammer is classified as a […]