Rowpress: Amplifying read disturbance in modern dram chips

H Luo, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkçı, YC Tuğrul… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Memory isolation is critical for system reliability, security, and safety. Unfortunately, read
disturbance can break memory isolation in modern DRAM chips. For example, RowHammer …

Rega: Scalable rowhammer mitigation with refresh-generating activations

M Marazzi, F Solt, P Jattke, K Takashi… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mitigating Rowhammer requires performing additional refresh operations to recharge DRAM
rows before bits start to flip. These refreshes are scarce and can only happen periodically …

Shadow: Preventing row hammer in dram with intra-subarray row shuffling

M Wi, J Park, S Ko, MJ Kim, NS Kim… - … Symposium on High …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Row Hammer (RH) attacks have been a critical threat to computer systems, numerous
hardware-based (HWbased) RH mitigation strategies have been proposed. However, the …

Understanding rowhammer under reduced wordline voltage: An experimental study using real dram devices

AG Yağlıkçı, H Luo, GF De Oliviera… - 2022 52nd Annual …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, where repeatedly activating and
precharging a DRAM row, and thus alternating the voltage of a row's wordline between low …

When frodo flips: End-to-end key recovery on frodokem via rowhammer

M Fahr Jr, H Kippen, A Kwong, T Dang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we recover the private key material of the FrodoKEM key exchange mechanism
as submitted to the NIST Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process. The …

Fundamentally understanding and solving rowhammer

O Mutlu, A Olgun, AG Yağlıkcı - Proceedings of the 28th Asia and South …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer
vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which …

Scalable and secure row-swap: Efficient and safe row hammer mitigation in memory systems

J Woo, G Saileshwar, PJ Nair - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAM) scale, they are becoming increasingly
susceptible to Row Hammer. By rapidly activating rows of DRAM cells (aggressor rows) …

HiRA: Hidden row activation for reducing refresh latency of off-the-shelf DRAM chips

AG Yağlikçi, A Olgun, M Patel, H Luo… - 2022 55th IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DRAM is the building block of modern main memory systems. DRAM cells must be
periodically refreshed to prevent data loss. Refresh operations degrade system performance …

Pride: Achieving secure rowhammer mitigation with low-cost in-dram trackers

A Jaleel, G Saileshwar, SW Keckler… - 2024 ACM/IEEE 51st …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rowhammer-induced bit-flips are a threat to DRAM security. To mitigate Rowhammer,
DDR4 devices employ TRR, an in-DRAM tracker, to identify aggressor rows. In-DRAM …

Moesi-prime: preventing coherence-induced hammering in commodity workloads

K Loughlin, S Saroiu, A Wolman, YA Manerkar… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Prior work shows that Rowhammer attacks---which flip bits in DRAM via frequent activations
of the same row (s)---are viable. Adversaries typically mount these attacks via instruction …