FKIE_CVE-2021-42114

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-11-16 12:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 06:27
Severity ?
9.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Modern DRAM devices (PC-DDR4, LPDDR4X) are affected by a vulnerability in their internal Target Row Refresh (TRR) mitigation against Rowhammer attacks. Novel non-uniform Rowhammer access patterns, consisting of aggressors with different frequencies, phases, and amplitudes allow triggering bit flips on affected memory modules using our Blacksmith fuzzer. The patterns generated by Blacksmith were able to trigger bitflips on all 40 PC-DDR4 DRAM devices in our test pool, which cover the three major DRAM manufacturers: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. This means that, even when chips advertised as Rowhammer-free are used, attackers may still be able to exploit Rowhammer. For example, this enables privilege-escalation attacks against the kernel or binaries such as the sudo binary, and also triggering bit flips in RSA-2048 keys (e.g., SSH keys) to gain cross-tenant virtual-machine access. We can confirm that DRAM devices acquired in July 2020 with DRAM chips from all three major DRAM vendors (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron) are affected by this vulnerability. For more details, please refer to our publication.
References
vulnerability@ncsc.chhttps://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/blacksmith/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@ncsc.chhttps://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/blacksmith_sp22.pdfExploit, Third Party Advisory
vulnerability@ncsc.chhttps://github.com/comsec-group/blacksmithExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/blacksmith/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://comsec.ethz.ch/wp-content/files/blacksmith_sp22.pdfExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/comsec-group/blacksmithExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
samsung ddr4_sdram_firmware -
samsung ddr4_sdram -
samsung lddr4_firmware -
samsung lddr4 -
micron lddr4_firmware -
micron lddr4 -
micron ddr4_sdram_firmware -
micron ddr4_sdram -
skhynix ddr4_sdram_firmware -
skhynix ddr4_sdram -
skhynix lddr4_firmware -
skhynix lddr4 -
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