Every Android Device Launched Since 2012 Impacted By RAMpage Vulnerability (bleepingcomputer.com)

Almost all Android devices released since 2012 are vulnerable to RAMpage bug, an international team of academics has revealed today. From a report: The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-9442, is a variation of the Rowhammer attack. Rowhammer is a hardware bug in modern memory cards. A few years back researchers discovered that when someone would send repeated write/read requests to the same row of memory cells, the write/read operations would create an electrical field that would alter data stored on nearby memory. In the following years, researchers discovered that Rowhammer-like attacks affected personal computers, virtual machines, and Android devices. Through further researcher, they also found they could execute Rowhammer attacks via JavaScript code, GPU cards, and network packets.

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Is iOS affected too...

[SuperKendall]

The article said that Apple iOS devices may be vulnerable to, but since this is a kind of Rowhammer attack, which Apple mitigated in 2015, I wonder if it is?

It would be nice if the article (and researchers) were more clear about other platforms being vulnerable...