The 2018 Pwnie Nominee For Best Privilege Escalation Bug

RAMPAGE

Credit: Victor van der Veen, Martina Lindorfer, Yanick Fratantonio, Harikrishnan Padmanabha Pillai, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi

A set of DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against the latest Android OS, including the 2018 version of the DRAMMER root exploit. Rowhammer is starting to be like the shingles of information security. Just when you think you can’t be affected by it again, it comes back like a thousand spider bites.