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New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access

Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service…

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Researchers have revealed a Rowhammer attack that targets NVIDIA workstation GPUs equipped with GDDR6 memory, bypassing the error correction codes (ECC) NVIDIA recommends for mitigation. The exploit can cause denial‑of‑service conditions and enable privilege escalation, ultimately granting a root shell on the host system.

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