RAMpage Vulnerability Leaves Android Phones Open To Rowhammer-Like Root Hack

A team of researchers has discovered a vulnerability in Android that was thought to be already patched by Google, but is theoretically able to bypass current mitigations and gain unauthorized access to handsets and tablets. Called RAMpage, it’s utilizes variations of the Rowhammer attack method that Google’s security engineers discovered and fixed two years ago.

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