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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

by 01-_- on 4/3/2026, 8:15:12 AM

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/new-rowhammer-attacks-give-complete-control-of-machines-running-nvidia-gpus/

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by: stratos123

Notable parts:<p>- &quot;GPU users should understand that the only cards known to be vulnerable to Rowhammer are the RTX 3060 and RTX 6000 from the Ampere generation&quot;<p>- mitigations are enabling ECC on the GPU or enabling IOMMU in BIOS<p>So doesn&#x27;t sound like a big deal for users, this is more of a datacenter sort of vulnerability. The fact that this attack is possible at all (you can turn small GPU memory writes into access to <i>CPU</i> memory) is pretty shocking to me, though.

4/3/2026, 10:22:48 AM