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2018 May 19
5
Virtio-net drivers immune to Nethammer?
Hi I'm a privacy distro maintainer investigating the implications of the
newly published nethammer attack [0] on KVM guests particularly the
virtio-net drivers. The summary of the paper is that rowhammer can be
remotely triggered by feeding susceptible* network driver crafted
traffic. This attack can do all kinds of nasty things such as modifying
SSL certs on the victim system.
* Susceptible dr...
2018 May 21
0
Re: Virtio-net drivers immune to Nethammer?
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:42:14AM +0000, procmem wrote:
> Hi I'm a privacy distro maintainer investigating the implications of the
> newly published nethammer attack [0] on KVM guests particularly the
> virtio-net drivers. The summary of the paper is that rowhammer can be
> remotely triggered by feeding susceptible* network driver crafted
> traffic. This attack can do all kinds of nasty things such as modifying
> SSL certs on the victim syste...