The Sisyphean Circus of Security Sux: rowhammer and drammer

Not that long ago an attack was posited. Use the fact that memory cells are adjacent, that silicon geometry is getting smaller, and that capacitive coupling could cause one cell to influence another.

And out of this was born ‘rowhammer‘. If you have a modern processor and modern ram, you can figure out a way to get root. Even via javascript. That’s right folks, get your tinfoil out, fashion a chapeau of sorts, and go to that mine in flin flon manitoba.

Now there is another implementation, ‘drammer‘ (AKA Flip Feng Shui). And it runs as an android app. Got a nexus 4 and want root? this is your tool. Any user can be root, any time. For simple.