An analytical overview and trend analysis of RowHummer vulnerabilities for various DRAM vendors
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Purpose: to conduct an analytical review of the vulnerability of SSD hard drives and analyze the trends of RowHummer vulnerabilities for different DRAM manufacturers. Make development forecasts.
Findings: Shows a trend toward an increase in the number of RowHummer-vulnerable DRAM chips due to a decrease in the technical process of manufacturing memory blocks.
Practical implications: The discovered vulnerability patterns and root causes of RowHummer can contribute to a better understanding and improvement of SSD memory protection methods in general.
Value: Test data for new memory chips from several DRAM manufacturers is presented. A combined method of analysis based on past developments in the field of protection against RowHummer attacks was also used.
Future research: This research paves the way for future research on the evolution of defenses against RowHummer-type attacks and related third-party memory attacks.
Paper type: analytical.
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