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Re:Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Andro... by bilbo0s on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:17PM (#16989521)
No need to "doubt". Just try Rowhammer via GLitch on a test iOS device. It will either work, or it will not. We need more people trying this out, informing vendors, and reporting their results in a REPLICABLE fashion.
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Re:Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Andro... by gruez on Thursday May 03, 2018 @04:57PM (#16989894)
>Just try Rowhammer via GLitch on a test iOS device

from TFA:

>the PoC currently works only on a Nexus 5 phone

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Re:Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Andro... by bigiain on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:05PM (#16991413)
This makes me _more_ certain iOS will end up being _more_ vulnerable to this type of attack.

It's almost certainly quite hardware specific, and if you were weaponising this there's way more homogeneous hardware on iOS than Android. Get this working on iPhone 7/8/X and you've probably got 75% of the "high value" iOS device fleet covered.

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Re:Drive-by Rowhammer attack uses GPU to compromise an Andro... by slededit on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:53PM (#16990754)
They are probably immune to this specific implementation simply because the relevant bits are in different locations - but not to the attack in general.
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