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Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ... by justin66 on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @11:56AM (#17074906)
Do you have any links to more information on that? Googling "row access counters" leads to a lot of comments you've made on the internet, and nothing else.

I'm skeptical that "ECC won't help," that's not a commonly held opinion. It might be true but it'd be interesting to read some actual analysis as to why.

Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ... by jnwatson on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:29PM (#17075184)
From the original paper, "For example, SECDED (single error-correction, double error detection) can correct only a single-bit error within a 64-bit word. If a word contains two victims, however, SECDED cannot correct the resulting double-bit error. And for three or more victims, SECDED cannot even detect the multi-bit error,leading to silent data corruption. Therefore, we conclude that SECDED is not failsafe against disturbance errors."

The challenge for the attacker is to produce a 3 or more bit failure before a 2-bit failure occurs, which would trigger some alarms. I haven't seen any research on the feasibility of such an attack.

Additionally, there are stronger ECC schemes than SECDED, for example the one in IBM's ChipKill. It is hard to imagine a RowHammer attack that could remain undetected with such a scheme.

It is fair to say that ECC memory raises the bar for attackers.

Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ... by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @06:27PM (#17078467)
Not to mention the schemes that treat RAM as untrusted with cryptographic, integrity checks. Those architectures are making more sense than ever now.
Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @12:21PM (#17075114)
ECC may indeed help, but it wouldn't really fix the root of the problem: the fact that bit flips like this can happen at all.
Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ... by rasz on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @02:42PM (#17076504)
google target row refresh, TRR