Re:Once thought safe, DDR4 memory shown to be vulnerable to ...
by tdullien on Friday March 18, 2016 @02:46AM
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So I do not know (in the mathematical sense) that ChipKill won't create a problem, but I think it is unlikely.
In general, if the ECC infrastructure works (e.g. DRAM detecting bit corruption and reporting it to the OS), the odds of an attacker finding a piece of RAM that flips bits "just right" to bypass the checksumming without triggering a OS panic are low enough that I'd rather worry about software bugs.
In general, if the ECC infrastructure works (e.g. DRAM detecting bit corruption and reporting it to the OS), the odds of an attacker finding a piece of RAM that flips bits "just right" to bypass the checksumming without triggering a OS panic are low enough that I'd rather worry about software bugs.
DoS may still be a pretty viable attack, though.