Re:Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requ...
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @06:27PM
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Not to mention the schemes that treat RAM as untrusted with cryptographic, integrity checks. Those architectures are making more sense than ever now.
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.