Exploring the Horizon: A Comprehensive Survey of Rowhammer

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of Rowhammer, a security vulnerability in DRAM, categorizing existing research into attacks, defenses, and intriguing work, and offering an overview of each category.

Contribution

It systematically classifies and reviews existing literature on Rowhammer, highlighting different approaches and research directions in the field.

Findings

Detailed categorization of Rowhammer studies into attacks, defenses, and intriguing work.

Overview of classifications within each research category.

Identification of key research trends and gaps in Rowhammer studies.

Abstract

Rowhammer poses a significant security challenge for modern computers, specifically affecting Dynamic Random Access Memory(DRAM). Given society's growing reliance on computer systems, ensuring the reliability of hardware is of utmost importance. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of Rowhammer, examining the literature from various angles. We categorise studies on Rowhammer into attacks, defences, and intriguing work, exploring each category in detail. Furthermore, we classify papers within each category into distinct yet overlapping classes and present an overview of the papers in each class.