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cs.CR2026

HULK: An Efficient Algorithm for Enabling Fast Bulk Bitwise Operations on Homomorphically Encrypted Data

Mayank Kabra, Phillip Widdowson, Harshita Gupta +9

A wide range of important cloud applications, e.g., database analytics, graph analytics, and genome analysis, spend a considerable amount of time performing bulk bitwise operations…

cs.CR2026

ColumnKeeper: Efficient Solutions to the ColumnDisturb Vulnerability in DRAM-based Systems

Andreas Kosmas Kakolyris, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ataberk Olgun +7

Modern DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena such as RowHammer and RowPress, which induce bitflips after accessing nearby rows a certain number of times (the read…

cs.CR2026

ScaleDisturb: Exploiting Temporal Asymmetry to Amplify Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

Jikun Wang, Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun +6

DRAM suffers from read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or continuously keeping open a DRAM row (aggressor row) induces bitflips in…

cs.CR2025

Understanding and Mitigating Covert Channel and Side Channel Vulnerabilities Introduced by RowHammer Defenses

F. Nisa Bostancı, Oğuzhan Canpolat, Ataberk Olgun +5

DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or keeping open a DRAM row causes bitflips in nearby rows. Attack…

cs.CR2025

Chronus: Understanding and Securing the Cutting-Edge Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +6

We 1) present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Countin…

cs.CR2024

Enabling Efficient and Scalable DRAM Read Disturbance Mitigation via New Experimental Insights into Modern DRAM Chips

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı

Increasing storage density exacerbates DRAM read disturbance, a circuit-level vulnerability exploited by system-level attacks. Unfortunately, existing defenses are either ineffecti…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Understanding the Security Benefits and Overheads of Emerging Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +3

We present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Counting (…

cs.CR2024

BreakHammer: Enhancing RowHammer Mitigations by Carefully Throttling Suspect Threads

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Ataberk Olgun +5

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in other physically nearby DRAM rows.…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Revisiting Main Memory-Based Covert and Side Channel Attacks in the Context of Processing-in-Memory

F. Nisa Bostanci, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Ataberk Olgun +6

We introduce IMPACT, a set of high-throughput main memory-based timing attacks that leverage characteristics of processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures to establish covert and sid…

cs.CR2024

CoMeT: Count-Min-Sketch-based Row Tracking to Mitigate RowHammer at Low Cost

F. Nisa Bostanci, Ismail Emir Yuksel, Ataberk Olgun +5

We propose a new RowHammer mitigation mechanism, CoMeT, that prevents RowHammer bitflips with low area, performance, and energy costs in DRAM-based systems at very low RowHammer th…

cs.CR2024

Spatial Variation-Aware Read Disturbance Defenses: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, Yahya Can Tuğrul, Geraldo F. Oliveira +4

Read disturbance in modern DRAM chips is a widespread phenomenon and is reliably used for breaking memory isolation, a fundamental building block for building robust systems. RowHa…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Read Disturbance in High Bandwidth Memory: A Detailed Experimental Study on HBM2 DRAM Chips

Ataberk Olgun, Majd Osseiran, Abdullah Giray Yaglikci +6

We experimentally demonstrate the effects of read disturbance (RowHammer and RowPress) and uncover the inner workings of undocumented read disturbance defense mechanisms in High Ba…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

ABACuS: All-Bank Activation Counters for Scalable and Low Overhead RowHammer Mitigation

Ataberk Olgun, Yahya Can Tugrul, Nisa Bostanci +6

We introduce ABACuS, a new low-cost hardware-counter-based RowHammer mitigation technique that performance-, energy-, and area-efficiently scales with worsening RowHammer vulnerabi…

cs.CR2023

RowPress: Amplifying Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun, A. Giray Yağlıkçı +6

Memory isolation is critical for system reliability, security, and safety. Unfortunately, read disturbance can break memory isolation in modern DRAM chips. For example, RowHammer i…

cs.CR2023

An Experimental Analysis of RowHammer in HBM2 DRAM Chips

Ataberk Olgun, Majd Osseiran, Abdullah Giray Ya{ğ}lık{c}ı +6

RowHammer (RH) is a significant and worsening security, safety, and reliability issue of modern DRAM chips that can be exploited to break memory isolation. Therefore, it is importa…

cs.CR2022★ 53 cited

Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer

Onur Mutlu, Ataberk Olgun, A. Giray Yağlıkçı

We provide an overview of recent developments and future directions in the RowHammer vulnerability that plagues modern DRAM (Dynamic Random Memory Access) chips, which are used in…

cs.CR2022★ 13 cited

SpyHammer: Understanding and Exploiting RowHammer under Fine-Grained Temperature Variations

Lois Orosa, Ulrich Rührmair, A. Giray Yaglikci +7

RowHammer is a DRAM vulnerability that can cause bit errors in a victim DRAM row solely by accessing its neighboring DRAM rows at a high-enough rate. Recent studies demonstrate tha…

cs.CR2021★ 73 cited

A Deeper Look into RowHammer`s Sensitivities: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Attacks and Defenses

Lois Orosa, Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, Haocong Luo +6

RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability where repeatedly accessing (i.e., hammering) a DRAM row can cause bit flips in physically nearby rows. The RowHammer vulnerability w…

cs.CR2021★ 9 cited

Security Analysis of the Silver Bullet Technique for RowHammer Prevention

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, Jeremie S. Kim, Fabrice Devaux +1

The purpose of this document is to study the security properties of the Silver Bullet algorithm against worst-case RowHammer attacks. We mathematically demonstrate that Silver Bull…

cs.CR2021★ 124 cited

BlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost by Blacklisting Rapidly-Accessed DRAM Rows

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, Minesh Patel, Jeremie S. Kim +9

Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating a DRAM row can cause bit-flips in physically-nearby row…