Posted by Nick Boyce on Mar 12

(I’m just posting the news – haven’t seen this here yet)

A team of Google security researchers recently reported on discoveries
they have made over the last few months which show it is possible to
alter contents of DRAM locations by simply *reading* the contents of
neighbouring locations. Using this technique they were able to
develop an exploit which modified page tables to allow write access to
the whole of physical memory and thus…