We have mitigated this by changing NaCl’s x86 validator to disallow the CLFLUSH instruction (tracked by CVE-2015-0565). Before running an x86-64 executable, NaCl uses a validator to check that its code conforms to a subset of x86 instructions that NaCl deems to be safe. Once a program can jump to an unaligned address, it can escape the sandbox, because it is possible to hide unsafe x86 instructions inside safe ones. The first runs as a Native Client (NaCl) program and escalates privilege to escape from NaCl’s x86-64 sandbox, acquiring the ability to call the host OS’s syscalls directly. Native Client is a sandboxing system that allows running a subset of x86-64 machine code (among other architectures) inside a sandbox. If it sees an exploitable bit flip, it uses it to jump to shell code hidden inside NaCl-validated instructions. More work may be required for this to work inside a sandboxed Linux process (such as a Chromium renderer process). On the other hand, the Biba model is suitable where integrity is more important.

10,000. These sorts of attacks on data integrity are often imagined to originate with wily hackers, but could surely come from a disgruntled employee as well. This system works well for homes or small offices. Our kernel privilege escalation works by using row hammering to induce a bit flip in a page table entry (PTE) that causes the PTE to point to a physical page containing a page table of the attacking process. The exploit works by triggering bit flips in that code sequence. A bit flip in validated code can turn a safe instruction sequence into an unsafe one. If this changes from 0 to 1, that will produce a page number that’s bigger than the system’s physical memory, which isn’t useful for our exploit, so we can skip trying to use this bit flip. If that changes from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0, the PTE will still point to a valid physical page. For example, bit 51 in a 64-bit word is the top bit of the physical page number in a PTE on x86-64. For example, you might think your neighbor’s daily flag raising ceremony is very patriotic and you may never question their loyalty.

I’m going to explore what might be behind this. However, there might be other ways to cause row hammering besides CLFLUSH (see below). 1), rather than by hammering one neighbour and a more-distant row. This likelihood was maximized when we hammered the locations 256k below and above a given target row. This “256k target memory area, 256k victim memory area, 256k target memory area” setup has shown itself to be quite effective on other laptops by the same vendor. The second runs as a normal x86-64 process on Linux and escalates privilege to gain access to all of physical memory. This gives the attacking process read-write access to one of its own page tables, and hence to all of physical memory. Alternatively, we can use aggressor/victim physical addresses that were discovered and recorded on a previous run; we use /proc/self/pagemap to search for these in memory. On a machine with 16 DRAM banks (as one of our test machines has: 2 DIMMs with 8 banks per DIMM), this gives us a 1/16 chance that the chosen addresses are in the same bank, which is quite high. This means we can tell in advance if a DRAM cell tends to flip and whether this bit location will be useful for the exploit.

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