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Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips

ID: 12a8d6d4-4927-52fc-a067-1d23754aa0cc

STIX ID: report--12a8d6d4-4927-52fc-a067-1d23754aa0cc

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-05-06

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

Author: Bruce Schneier

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Researchers demonstrated new Rowhammer attacks against NVIDIA Ampere GPUs (including RTX 3060, RTX 6000, RTX A6000) that induce GDDR6 bitflips to corrupt GPU page tables and escalate to arbitrary read/write of CPU memory, allowing full system compromise and root shells; one proof-of-concept requires IOMMU disabled (default in many BIOS), while a later variant reportedly works with IOMMU enabled.

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