Re: 'Rowhammer' - Software-triggered DRAM corruption

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Am 12.03.2015 um 21:31 schrieb Aris Adamantiadis:
> Le 12/03/15 17:00, Nick Boyce a écrit :
>
> > Also, this may only affect SODIMMs, not DIMMs, as Google was only able
> > to make the attack work on laptops - desktop machines so far remaining
> > unaffected.
> >
> > [I *knew* it was a good idea to hang on to that old Athlon XP desktop :-)]
> There are countless reports of the attack working on desktops. It worked
> on one of the two non-ecc desktops I've tried it on. It's an AMD FX 8150.
It's not dependend on the processor, it's the ram-design thats vulnerable.

If you use ECC chips, you should be safe, thats why cheap hw hosters are
now in trouble,
and professionsal server hw hosters not.

best regards,

Marius

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