Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Isolation Domains to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer

K Loughlin, J Rosenblum, S Saroiu, A Wolman… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Today's cloud DRAM lacks strong isolation primitives, highlighted by Rowhammer bit flips.
Rowhammer poses an increasing threat to cloud security/reliability, given (1) DRAM …

SSDA: Secure Source-Free Domain Adaptation

S Ahmed, A Al Arafat, MN Rizve… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) is a popular unsupervised domain adaptation
method where a pre-trained model from a source domain is adapted to a target domain …

Spatial Variation-Aware Read Disturbance Defenses: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

AG Yağlıkçı, YC Tuğrul, GF Oliveira… - … Symposium on High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Read disturbance in modern DRAM chips is a widespread phenomenon and is reliably used
for breaking memory isolation, a fundamental building block for building robust systems …

Read disturbance in high bandwidth memory: A detailed experimental study on hbm2 dram chips

A Olgun, M Osseiran, AG Yağlıkçı… - 2024 54th Annual …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate the effects of read disturbance (RowHammer and
RowPress) and uncover the inner workings of undocumented read disturbance defense …

A case for self-managing DRAM chips: Improving performance, efficiency, reliability, and security via autonomous in-DRAM maintenance operations

H Hassan, A Olgun, AG Yaglikci, H Luo, O Mutlu - arXiv, 2022 - research-collection.ethz.ch
The memory controller is in charge of managing DRAM maintenance operations (eg,
refresh, RowHammer protection, memory scrubbing) in current DRAM chips. Implementing …

Understanding the Security Benefits and Overheads of Emerging Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

O Canpolat, AG Yağlıkçı, GF Oliveira, A Olgun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-
the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Counting …

DRAM-Locker: A General-Purpose DRAM Protection Mechanism against Adversarial DNN Weight Attacks

R Zhou, S Ahmed, A Roohi, AS Rakin… - … Design, Automation & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose DRAM-Locker as a robust general-purpose defense mechanism
that can protect DRAM against various adversarial Deep Neural Network (DNN) weight …

Understanding Read Disturbance in High Bandwidth Memory: An Experimental Analysis of Real HBM2 DRAM Chips

A Olgun, M Osseiran, AG Yaglikci, YC Tugrul… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
DRAM read disturbance is a significant and worsening safety, security, and reliability issue
of modern DRAM chips that can be exploited to break memory isolation. Two prominent …

Unveiling Signle-Bit-Flip Attacks on DNN Executables

Y Chen, Z Liu, Y Yuan, S Hu, T Li, S Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recent research has shown that bit-flip attacks (BFAs) can manipulate deep neural networks
(DNNs) via DRAM Rowhammer exploitations. Existing attacks are primarily launched over …

Threshold Breaker: Can Counter-Based RowHammer Prevention Mechanisms Truly Safeguard DRAM?

R Zhou, J Liu, S Ahmed, N Kochar, AS Rakin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper challenges the existing victim-focused counter-based RowHammer detection
mechanisms by experimentally demonstrating a novel multi-sided fault injection attack …