CVE-2021-42114: Scalable Rowhammering In the Frequency Domain to Bypass TRR Mitigations On Modern DDR4/LPDDR4X Devices
First published: Tue Nov 16 2021(Updated: )
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.
Credit: vulnerability@ncsc.ch vulnerability@ncsc.ch
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| All of | ||
| Samsung Ddr4 Sdram Firmware | ||
| Samsung Ddr4 Sdram | ||
| All of | ||
| Samsung Lddr4 Firmware | ||
| Samsung Lddr4 | ||
| All of | ||
| Micron Lddr4 Firmware | ||
| Micron Lddr4 | ||
| All of | ||
| Micron Ddr4 Sdram Firmware | ||
| Micron Ddr4 Sdram | ||
| All of | ||
| Skhynix Ddr4 Sdram Firmware | ||
| Skhynix Ddr4 Sdram | ||
| All of | ||
| Skhynix Lddr4 Firmware | ||
| Skhynix Lddr4 |
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