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Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness

Cutting-edge hack gives super user status by exploiting DRAM weakness

March 10, 2015

Via: Dan Goodin

In one of more impressive hacks in recent memory, researchers have devised an attack that exploits physical weaknesses in certain types of DDR memory chips to elevate the system rights of untrusted users of Intel-compatible PCs running Linux. The technique, […]