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🖋️ New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access 🖋️

Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes ECC, the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denialofservice DoS and privilege escalation to a root shell. Dubbed GPUThor, the attack was developed by researchers at the University of Toronto, who hammered four DRAM.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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