Re:Malware Could Use SSD Over-Provisioning to Bypass Securit...
by Arnavion on Thursday December 30, 2021 @07:58PM
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It's not just the Micron. The Micron is only mentioned specifically because it lets you change the OP area size as a feature. Any SSD where the OP area can be resized dynamically for any reason is affected, and the paper says:
>Recently, many storage devices vary the size of the OP area in real time to optimize performance. [...] The OP area can be freely changed by the user or by the firmware manager.
>Recently, many storage devices vary the size of the OP area in real time to optimize performance. [...] The OP area can be freely changed by the user or by the firmware manager.