Uncovering in-dram rowhammer protection mechanisms: A new methodology, custom rowhammer patterns, and implications

H Hassan, YC Tugrul, JS Kim, V Van der Veen… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The RowHammer vulnerability in DRAM is a critical threat to system security. To protect
against RowHammer, vendors commit to security-through-obscurity: modern DRAM chips …

Revisiting rowhammer: An experimental analysis of modern dram devices and mitigation techniques

JS Kim, M Patel, AG Yağlıkçı, H Hassan… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, first rigorously analyzed and introduced in
2014, where repeatedly accessing data in a DRAM row can cause bit flips in nearby rows …

Hydra: Enabling low-overhead mitigation of row-hammer at ultra-low thresholds via hybrid tracking

M Qureshi, A Rohan, G Saileshwar… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
DRAM systems continue to be plagued by the Row-Hammer (RH) security vulnerability. The
threshold number of row activations (TRH) required to induce RH has reduced rapidly from …

Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

AG Yağlikçi, M Patel, JS Kim, R Azizi… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from
RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating (ie, hammering) a DRAM row can …

A deeper look into rowhammer's sensitivities: Experimental analysis of real dram chips and implications on future attacks and defenses

L Orosa, AG Yaglikci, H Luo, A Olgun, J Park… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessing (ie,
hammering) a DRAM row can cause bit flips in physically nearby rows. The 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 …

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 …

Protrr: Principled yet optimal in-dram target row refresh

M Marazzi, P Jattke, F Solt… - 2022 IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The DRAM substrate is becoming increasingly more vulnerable to Rowhammer as we move
to smaller technology nodes. We introduce ProTRR, the first principled in-DRAM Target Row …

[PDF][PDF] Panopticon: A complete in-dram rowhammer mitigation

T Bennett, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Workshop on DRAM …, 2021 - alecw.azurewebsites.net
The shortcomings of previous Rowhammer mitigations prevent their adoption in practice.
Their implementations either need significant amounts of fast memory, such as CAM or …