Papaioannou, V;
Courtois, N;
(2017)
On Feasibility and Performance of Rowhammmer Attack.
In:
ASHES '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security.
(pp. pp. 53-58).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
In this paper we study the Rowhammer sidechannel attack and evaluate its feasibility on practical exploitation scenarios in Linux. Currently, all the implementations released, capable of performing the Rowhammer attack, require elevated privileges. This is a very strong requirement which, in a sense, puts ths attack into the theoretical spectrum. The purpose of this report is to explore different techniques that would allow the execution of the Rowhammer attack in userspace. More specifically, we provide two implementations, each of them having different strength of requirements but with one characteristic in common: the capability of executing the Rowhammer attack without elevated privileges. At the end, we see that not only it was possible to reach similar levels of performance with the programs that required elevated privileges, but in some cases even outperform them, in both native and virtual environments.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | On Feasibility and Performance of Rowhammmer Attack |
| Event: | CCS '17: 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security |
| Location: | Dallas, TX |
| Dates: | 03 November 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4503-5397-7 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3139324.3139330 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3139324.3139330 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Side channel attack, rowhammer, DRAM, DFA, perturbation attacks |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133816 |
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