@inproceedings{1173,
  keywords = {rowhammer, microarchitectural attacks, hardware faults},
  author = {Zhenkai Zhang and Zihao Zhan and Daniel Balasubramanian and Xenofon Koutsoukos and Gabor Karsai},
  title = {Triggering Rowhammer Hardware Faults on ARM: A Revisit},
  abstract = {The rowhammer bug belongs to software-induced hardware faults, and has posed great security challenges to numerous systems. On x86, many approaches to triggering the rowhammer bug have been found; yet, due to several different reasons, the number of discovered approaches on ARM is limited. In this paper, we revisit the problem of how to trigger the rowhammer bug on ARM-based devices by carefully investigating whether it is possible to translate the original x86-oriented rowhammer approaches to ARM. We provide a thorough study of the unprivileged ARMv8-A cache maintenance instructions and give two previously overlooked reasons to support their use in rowhammer attacks. Moreover, we present a previously undiscovered instruction that can be exploited to trigger the rowhammer bug on many ARM-based devices. A potential approach to quickly evicting ARM CPU caches is also discussed, and experimental evaluations are carried out to show the effectiveness of our findings.},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {2018 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security},
  pages = {24–33},
  month = {10/2018},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  isbn = {9781450359962},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3266444.3266454},
  doi = {10.1145/3266444.3266454},
}