IBM researchers: Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges to attacker #lzodevelopment

The way flash NAND memory of SSDs works makes it possible for an attacker with write access to get root privileges on a system, researchers from IBM demonstrated during the WOOT ’17 conference. The method works similar to that of the ‘Rowhammer’ attack.

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