Harini Muthukrishnan (U of Michigan); David Nellans, Daniel Lustig (NVIDIA); Jeffrey A. Fessler, Thomas Wenisch (U of Michigan). Abstract—”Despite continuing research into inter-GPU communication ...
The CPU and the GPU share access to some pages of memory. New Linux code helps the kernel keep track of memory holding data for the GPU. The management of video hardware has long been an area of ...
New Rowhammer attacks target NVIDIA GPUs, exposing GDDR memory and enabling hackers to gain full system access and root ...
From where, they can also take control over the system RAM.
Security researchers found a way to manipulate GPU memory and elevate it into a system attack with root permissions.
Just like your PC’s system memory, graphics cards and laptop GPUs have their own memory, called VRAM (video RAM). Graphics memory is mostly important for gaming, but there are productivity and ...
A separate mitigation is to enable Error Correcting Codes (ECC) on the GPU, something Nvidia allows to be done using a ...